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>The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate d

by nsser 9y ago

>The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent ?> > Assertion arises in whole or in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating to the Software. Its not talking about terminating the patent grant, its talking about terminating the license to use.

Lazare 9y ago
> Its not talking about terminating the patent grant, its talking about terminating the license to use. This is totally incorrect, and has been debunked many time. "The license granted herein" is the patent grant, because that language occurs in the patent grant. The BSD license is totally separate. This has been stated, repeatedly, by representatives of Facebook and independent lawyers; the language is standard and unambiguous. They even answered it in a FAQ here[0]: Q: Does termination of the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license cause the copyright license to also terminate? A: No. [0]: https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556 https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556
FRex 9y ago
The section you quite is under this one: >Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software ("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any Necessary Claims, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no license is granted under Facebook's rights in any patent claims that are infringed by (i) modifications to the Software made by you or any third party or (ii) the Software in combination with any software or other technology. Emphasis mine. So it seems to terminate just the patent grant. You can't terminate a BSD license so if you're in like France (no software patents) then you are fine to use React and sue Facebook for patent infringement.

by nsser 9y ago

Lazare 9y ago

> Its not talking about terminating the patent grant, its talking about terminating the license to use. This is totally incorrect, and has been debunked many time. "The license granted herein" is the patent grant, because that language occurs in the patent grant. The BSD license is totally separate. This has been stated, repeatedly, by representatives of Facebook and independent lawyers; the language is standard and unambiguous. They even answered it in a FAQ here[0]: Q: Does termination of the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license cause the copyright license to also terminate? A: No. [0]: https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556 https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556

FRex 9y ago

The section you quite is under this one: >Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software ("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any Necessary Claims, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no license is granted under Facebook's rights in any patent claims that are infringed by (i) modifications to the Software made by you or any third party or (ii) the Software in combination with any software or other technology. Emphasis mine. So it seems to terminate just the patent grant. You can't terminate a BSD license so if you're in like France (no software patents) then you are fine to use React and sue Facebook for patent infringement.