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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by jjnoakes on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:23AM (#16399362)
> The BSD licence is objectively worse than the BSD+Patent Grant.

I'm not a lawyer, but I have heard a few claim the opposite: BSD plus the explicit restricted patent grant was worse than BSD (or MIT) with no explicit patent grant (because many believe it carries an implicit unrestricted patent grant).

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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by qaq on Saturday February 17, 2018 @02:30AM (#16399541)
It does not look like this was ever tested by actual court case so I guess it is hard to argue either way.
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