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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by sseppola on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:51AM (#15320252)
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...

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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by x0x0 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:07PM (#15321137)
That link is also worth reading because the author is a lawyer; he claims the React patent clause is a paper tiger.
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Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js by dis-sys on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:54AM (#15323372)
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.
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