I wish someone would explain why the licensing issue is not a pertinent discussion here And why those comments have been removed. In any other case that would be a perfectly reasonable point to consider.
Because there is no licensing issue because this project hasn't been released. This blog post is a preannouncement. When it's released and its known what license it uses then it will become a pertinent discussion.
The very fact that the announcement includes "the ultimate goal of contributing it to the open source community later in 2017" makes the licensing issue pertinent, particularly given Facebook's licensing history.