Yes, again, I agree. But up to this point you're the first person who has expressed any concern for the contributors. That's not the issue.
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The issue is that there is a bunch of FUD going around by people who are afraid they can't use React because they can't sue FB if they do.
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It's not FUD if it's true. If e.g. Oculus infringed on your VR work & you wanted to sue, you can't. Totally unrelated to React.
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If you use React you *can* sue FB for infringing your patent. FB can just defend using React patents. More here:https://blog.cloudboost.io/3-points-to-consider-before-migrating-away-from-react-because-of-facebooks-bsd-patent-license-b4a32562d268 …
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Replying to @ArielR_IP @ericflo and
That isn't the point of the patent clause. The point is to discourage lawsuits by revoking your license to React patents.
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Replying to @wycats @ArielR_IP and
The problem is that Facebook faces no punishment for initiating patent lawsuits, which is different from Apache.
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Replying to @wycats @ArielR_IP and
But they also cannot use any patents that apply to React in that lawsuit against you since the patent grant is still in effect.
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Replying to @mjackson @ArielR_IP and
They can't sue you for using react, but they can sue you for any other reason. You can't sue them.
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It's just inappropriately unilateral. If you're trying to reduce patent lawsuits in general, you want to stop Facebook too.
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The only reason Facebook isn't included is that it's a grant of Facebook patents written by Facebook lawyers.
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A project like React ought to have granted you the rights to OTHER contributor patents and therefore limited Facebook's ability to sue.
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