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What would you suggest as a solution to this? What should Facebook do?
I am not a lawyer, but perhaps they could just skip the second paragraph? I understand the motivation behind discouraging people from suing you, but putting "you will not sue us for patent infringement" into a software license is a bit weird.
Hallelujah! I've been checking my Twitter obsessively today and yesterday for this.
How can i use Sqlite with react native?
I know what I'm doing this weekend!
Is this node/ES5 only or can we use io?
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So I guess you don't use any Apache licensed products at work either? Since the only reason Facebook added the PATENTS file is to keep the new BSD license in line with their old Apache license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/
Apache 2.0's license clause does not have an equivalent to "The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or other action) alleging [...] that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable."), which is the problematic part as it means that you can't even defend yourself if Facebook sue…
> If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
This seems equivalent to me, is the Facebook one broader?
Great news! One question: since FB just announced React+Parse, I wonder how's support for Parse in React Native? Or put it a better way, if I want to write an multi-platform app based on Parse, should I consider using React Native? or it's still better to developer separate apps for each platform to get the best of Parse (especially for features like push notification)?
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What would you suggest as a solution to this? What should Facebook do?
It says if you get into a patent disagreement with their company you can no longer use react, whether they sue you, or you sue them. I'm not planning on suing facebook, but if they sue me, suddenly I have 2 problems, the lawsuit, and not being able to use react anymore. It should only regard to react. If the clause is to protect their right to develop react, it should only pertain to such.
Suing Facebook does not void your license to use React. It voids your additional patent grant. That's different.