Re:React 16
by DannyBee on Sunday October 01, 2017 @04:33PM
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This is not untested, only untested in the software field.
It's very very very well tested in other fields.
So far, every court ever (and there are quite a lot of them) has said "when you tell people they can use your thing and do what they want with it, you can't sue them later for infringement for doing what you said was okay".
There is pretty much zero precedent on the other side.
In fact, one of the only related pieces of precedent on the other side, which was "attempting to avoid patent exhaustion by contract" was completely and totally overruled by the supreme court last year, where they unequivocably said that sales exhaust patents, no matter what you make a person agree to.
So far, every court ever (and there are quite a lot of them) has said "when you tell people they can use your thing and do what they want with it, you can't sue them later for infringement for doing what you said was okay".
There is pretty much zero precedent on the other side.
In fact, one of the only related pieces of precedent on the other side, which was "attempting to avoid patent exhaustion by contract" was completely and totally overruled by the supreme court last year, where they unequivocably said that sales exhaust patents, no matter what you make a person agree to.