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A comment on GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues.

Re:GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues by yuchi on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:51AM (#15291589)
Help me on this: Facebook has just removed the PATENTS file from GraphQL repository, and now there are issues for this? And at the same time people are arguing over removing it from React?

This is madness…

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Re:GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues by worldsayshi on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:22AM (#15291689)
What? They haven't... https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/PATENTS
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Re:GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues by Flenser on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:54AM (#15292052)
The graphql-js repo is an implementation of GraphQL in JavaScript

The graphql repo is the specification for GraphQL. There has never been a PATENTS file in that repo or any mention of patents:

https://github.com/facebook/graphql/search?q=patents&type=Co...

See DannyBee's post for why a patent grant for a specification is different from software:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15291330

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Re:GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues by twinsart on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @08:25AM (#15292916)
You're probably thinking of RocksDB
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