But it's not Apache! 
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Replying to @mjackson @robpalmer2 and
I think this means we just lost our license to any Facebook React patents.
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Replying to @xander76 @robpalmer2 and
So you're saying now they *can* sue me for infringing on their patents?!
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Replying to @mjackson @robpalmer2 and
Yes. MIT has no explicit patent license.
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Permission is hereby granted to use without restriction.
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Sasha Aickin Retweeted Ryan Roemer
Right, and some legal scholars say that is an implicit patent license, but AFAICT no court has yet upheld that.https://twitter.com/ryan_roemer/status/911363546927075329 …
Sasha Aickin added,
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I'd love to be wrong on this count FWIW.
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I think it's funny to call an unrestricted right to use an implicit license. If you buy off the shelf software w/ that, what would it mean?
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I mean, this is the problem with reading law. It doesn't always mean what it means! It means what lawyers and judges and tradition says.
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And like, you may well be right, and some/many legal scholars think you're right, but until there's precedent, it's an untested theory IMO.
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The kind of defensive patent stuff in PATENTS was also untested and much much weirder.
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