Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
by dis-sys on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:40AM
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the one in Go basically says if you sue google for any Go related patents then they revoke the license. that patent retaliation clause is nothing different from the one used in Apache Licence Version 2. the one in react says they revoke your license when you sue facebook for any patent related matter.
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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
by sseppola on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:51AM
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Aslo called a "weak patent retaliation clause" vs React's (current) strong patent retaliation clause.
I found the explanations in [1] to be very helpful to understand patent clauses.
[1]: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...
Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
by x0x0 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:07PM
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That link is also worth reading because the author is a lawyer; he claims the React patent clause is a paper tiger.
Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
by dis-sys on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:54AM
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different people have different opinions, the problem is as long as there are many people who have such legal concerns about react's BSD+PATENT, using react would be considered as suicidal for startups.