It seems to me the core of the disagreement revolves around whether you believe there is an implicit grant of patent or not. If you believe the BSD has an impl

It seems to me the core of the disagreement revolves around whether you believe there is an implicit grant of patent or not. If you believe the BSD has an implicit grant, then the facebook license is a more limited license. If you don't believe it, then the facebook license is better for the user. As far as I know there is no president to solve this neither in the U.S. or europe, so both views are valid. One thing is weird in facebook's behaviour though - they imply that the BSD doesn't have an implicit grant, and so they are benevolently giving away a better license, but if so, then the public outcry should be enough to take it back, if it's just a gesture of good will, and it isn't received as such, what's the point in continuing in this course? The only explanation they give is that they are more or less on a crusade for people to adapt this license because they believe it will reduce patent lawsuits