Re:On React and WordPress
by cvsh on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:35PM
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Matt is a copyleft zealot. Of course he'd drop React over this non-controversy. Anyone paying attention to how he views GPL would come to that conclusion.
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Did you read the blog post?
His main concern is suddenly updating ~25% of all websites to "include" the React license.
Imagine Microsoft running a small WordPress site off in the distance somewhere that takes the Wordpress + React update. Tadaa, MS is now in theory bound by the FB patent clause.
He doesn't want to be responsible for the potential legal liability of encumbering 25% of the internet with a new license agreement.
Microsoft is already using React in public-facing stuff.
That's honestly not how I read this blog post at all. He came right out and said that they didn't see the patent clause being an issue, but they want Facebook to make that argument and not them.