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I think the cause of the complaint is that if they wanted these things in a license, they could've used Apache 2 and been done with it. Any confusion that aris
by jacques_chester 9y ago
I think the cause of the complaint is that if they wanted these things in a license, they could've used Apache 2 and been done with it.
Any confusion that arises from deciding to depart from well-understood licenses is fairly laid at their door, in my view.
- chc 9y agoApache 2 is somewhat less permissive than Facebook's choice of BSD + patent grant. I agree that people probably wouldn't have been able to spread the FUD so successfully if they'd gone for a more conventional setup, but the licenses are short (probably shorter than Apache combined) and pretty clear. It feels pretty unfair to say "Facebook's open source dev team deserve to have their names run down because they chose more permissive license terms than we're used to."