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If this is a concern, maybe you could just use something like preact as a drop-in replacement for react? https://github.com/developit/preact https://github.com
by peller 9y ago
If this is a concern, maybe you could just use something like preact as a drop-in replacement for react?
https://github.com/developit/preact https://github.com/developit/preact
- bryanlarsen 9y agoHow would that help? If Facebook has any patents on React, it's quite likely that preact is violating them. If you're using React then you're protected by the patent grant. If you're using preact then you aren't.
- peller 9y agoWell, please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it by using React you're essentially giving up your right to sue FB for infringement of any of your patents (assuming you wish to keep using React). True, by using something like preact I suppose there is the alternative risk you pointed out. But perhaps it's a tradeoff some businesses might find acceptable.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoYou don't give up the right to sue them; you just lose the patent license if you do. If you use preact, you don't have the patent license at all, so you are in the same situation as if you used React and sued them over patents.
- peller 9y agoAh OK, thanks for the clarification. I stand corrected.