2: Why? Because React's license is structured as a grant of Facebook patents to defend Facebook from other unrelated suits.
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3: The Apache license gives you, the user, the a grant for patents held by any contributor, which also means that any contributor can ...
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4: ... *explicitly* lose the right to patents held by other contributors if they initiate lawsuits re the software.
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5: But the goal of the Facebook license is to protect Facebook from unrelated lawsuits, so the grant/revocation can't be linked to React.
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6/6: The consequence is that you don't get a license for patents from other contributors, and other contribs aren't protected from FB.
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Doesn't any contributor who signs the cla also enter into a patent agreement? I'm not sure what "distributed by Facebook" means tho ...pic.twitter.com/HUwim5sz0v
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