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Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

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Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

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Post by blaqkangel »

That was incredibly unexpected. Facebook may very well end up in the majority's good graces with this move. I wonder how some of the bigger players will react (no pun intended) after their abandonment of React in lieu of Vue or some other framework. Interesting times indeed.

Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

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Post by rocky1138 »

maxton wrote: post #8

This is a very smart move by Facebook, and a win for the open source community as a whole. Why it took so long for the license change is a bit of a mystery, but removing the complications of software patents from their licenses will help further drive adoption and remove the precedent they were in danger of setting.

> Why it took so long for the license change is a bit of a mystery

Have you ever worked at a large company with its own legal team? It's not such a large mystery.

Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

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Post by veb »

jonny_eh wrote: post #14
awalton wrote: post #2

Death to asymmetrical patent clauses! Huge victory for OSS.

Was it asymmetrical? I thought it was a "we won't sue you for anything in this software, unless you sue us first". This change still allows them to sue you for any reason.

to be fair, Facebook could still sue anyone for any reason they can think of irregardless of what you're using! ;-)
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