Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
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Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
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Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#2Death to asymmetrical patent clauses! Huge victory for OSS.
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#3Wow, that's a fantastic move, huge win for open source.
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#4:O
Never thought this would happen
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#5What about GraphQL?
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#6Looks like React Native isn't included in the list for a license update.
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#7Well, everyone that didn't want to use react, didn't use it because of the license, so I guess now these people will be happy too. Good news.
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#8This 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.
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#9There was a graphql Patent grant issue as well.
Re: Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
#10Why not Apache 2.0 though? That would have been a logical choice.