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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by rhizome on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:00AM (#15318212)
Yes. The way I read it, Facebook essentially shirked the issue, regardless whether it's only a perception problem, onto companies like Wordpress. WP has their own users, it's not WP's job to do FB's work for them, and FB has to have known the patents clause was going to be problematic, or at least controversial.
Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by chrisco255 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:47AM (#15318355)
React has been out for 4 years now. This hasn't been this big of a deal. But I guess at this point, React has hit critical mass, and it's sort of becoming a standard for front end development, so the FUD hit fever pitch.
Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by rhizome on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:19PM (#15320701)
You seem to have other issues with the controversy, but remember that the impetus for discussion these days was the Apache Software Foundation not accepting BSD+P as compatible with its policies.