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If Facebook's approach is so great, by introducing a legal provision in the OSS license, how come it has not been adopted by any other company except for Palant
by raulk 9y ago
If Facebook's approach is so great, by introducing a legal provision in the OSS license, how come it has not been adopted by any other company except for Palantir, despite being introduced in 2014?
I analysed 75+ OSS projects from 35 companies, and Facebook is practically alone.
https://medium.com/@raulk/list-of-companies-and-popular-projects-by-the-open-source-licenses-they-use-35a53eaf1c80 https://medium.com/@raulk/list-of-companies-and-popular-proj...
- web007 9y agoI commented elsewhere on this, but how about CDDL? IANAL but it seems to do the same thing, patent poison pill in the event of suit.
- raulk 9y agoCDDL includes a "weak patent retaliation" clause [1], meaning you only lose the grant if you initiate a patent infringement claim within the context of the project, i.e. saying that the project you have adopted infringes a patent of yours. And even if you do, the revocation takes effect in 60 days, which is pretty friendly IMHO. [1] http://en.swpat.org/wiki/CDDL_and_patents http://en.swpat.org/wiki/CDDL_and_patents