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The Facebook patents license, https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS , says: > The license
by joobus 9y ago
The Facebook patents license, https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS , says:
> 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: ... (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,
I always thought the main problem was this part, where you basically lose the license or your IP if Facebook ever decides to become your competitor, e.g. you start a company with a react front-end that does X, and then Facebook decides to directly copy your business. You have no recourse against Facebook, because if you sue them for infringing your IP, you lose the ability to use the React license.
- nojvek 9y agoIf Snapchat used React, Facebook would kill them to death because Snapchat couldn’t do much. They already mass copied snapchat’s Features. Any sane aspiring developer would know not to give Facebook that much power.
- neospice 9y agoIs SNAP pursuing litigation in retaliation to this? If not, then would it have mattered if they used React?
- chrisco255 9y agoDoes the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license terminate if I create a competing product? No. Does the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license terminate if I sue Facebook for something other than patent infringement? No. Does the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license terminate if Facebook sues me for patent infringement first, and then I respond with a patent counterclaim against Facebook? No, unless your patent counterclaim is related to Facebook's software licensed under the Facebook BSD+Patents license. Does termination of the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license cause the copyright license to also terminate? No. From: https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556 https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556