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hajile
on Aug 19, 2017
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Explaining React's license
They have implicit patent grants while Facebook's does not.
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence
antoncohen
on Aug 19, 2017
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I don't see how that changes anything. If you sue Facebook you lose the explicit patent grant, but you are still left with a BSD license that allows "redistribution and use in source and binary forms", so you still have the implicit patent grant.
rockdoe
on Aug 19, 2017
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This doesn't work if there's an explicit grant. You can't pretend the PATENTS file isn't there.
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