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Facebook's license is even weaker than a BSD/MIT license without any PATENTS license attached at all. Because in that case the patents grant can be considered i

Facebook's license is even weaker than a BSD/MIT license without any PATENTS license attached at all. Because in that case the patents grant can be considered implicit, depending on jurisdiction. By including a PATENTS license in that repository, Facebook nullifies the possibility of such a defense.

arcticbull 10y ago
[edit] I'm bad at read. Sorry!
- bad_user 10y ago
  I'm not sure what you disagree with.
  - dleslie 10y ago
    I am equally confused; I think they may have misread your comment.
bluejekyll 10y ago
I wish he went into more detail on the difference between this and the Apache2 patent grants. I've been favoring Apache2, and am considering adopting the GPLv2 compatibility clause that is being added to Swift.
- bad_user 10y ago
  Apache 2 is definitely much better. IANAL, but I've written about the difference in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692852