I'd like to extend my thanks Apache Foundation. By questioning and scrutinizing the patents / license clause they cleared up a bit what Facebook's intent was th

I'd like to extend my thanks Apache Foundation. By questioning and scrutinizing the patents / license clause they cleared up a bit what Facebook's intent was there. A lot of people have been claiming it is just corporate boilerplate, get over it, etc, etc. At least in the case React that's not the case. There is a strategy there and one where FB hopes to inoculate itself against being sued for patent violations. It is also interesting that for some libraries like RocksDB and zstd they didn't mind changing the license too much. So some projects are more strategic then others it seems. Now I am not blaming them or saying they should change the license, it's their code, they can do whatever they want with it. It is just that the idea of it just being boilerplate legalese can be safely ignored from now on.