Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by alecco on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:42AM (#15319680)

I'm astounded how everyone things MIT == Apache2. MIT doesn't protect you from patent litigation.

This is a backwards move. Facebook is very good at PR painting this as a win for users.

See http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_clauses_in_software_licences...

an explanation https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/1890

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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by uiri on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:58PM (#15322454)

The MIT license does not explicitly mention patents. However, depending on the lawyer, an argument could be made that it contains an implicit patent license. I think that Facebook would have an uphill battle arguing that their relicensing didn't include patents after this kerfuffle.

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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by brodock on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:00PM (#15322660)

Exactly. This is like: "oh you didn't like to receive the patent under this terms, get this, no patents grant anymore"

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