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Same as React: do not use if you plan to do anything that Facebook might dislike or steal, or want to sell your startup, or work in a bigger corp (ask the legal

• denisw 9y ago
  This advice makes no sense for GraphQL, which is a _protocol_ rather than a piece of software. In fact, the perhaps most-used GraphQL implementation these days (Apollo) is not written by Facebook and is purely MIT-licensed. Of course, you do need to ask yourself these legal questions if you use Relay.
  • hobofan 9y ago
    The major Apollo libraries depend on Graphql.js, which is affected by the patent grant. Apart from that GraphQL is the only one library with a known patent by Facebook, so you would actually want to get the patent grant there. [0]: https://github.com/apollographql/react-apollo/blob/master/package.json#L108 https://github.com/apollographql/react-apollo/blob/master/pa... [1]: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/blob/master/package.json#L30 https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/blob/master/p... [2]: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/master/package.json#L76 https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/master/p...