One thing I think would lay to rest a lot of this issue would be if Facebook would just explicitly state, "We have patents for React," or, "We hold no patents f

One thing I think would lay to rest a lot of this issue would be if Facebook would just explicitly state, "We have patents for React," or, "We hold no patents for React." There's a lot of misinformation going around, and some people say that there have been searches and found nothing, others have said there are patents, so it's very confusing. My understanding is that Facebook doesn't hold any patents for React or technologies that React uses, but I don't know for sure because I haven't seen it from a qualified source and Facebook hasn't said anything. The other thing I think would help is if Facebook made is crystal clear the meaning of the patent grant and explained it in plain English, because they currently aren't doing a good job at explaining it as evidenced by people always saying different things about it. Their relative silence and opaqueness around this issue only causes confusion and distrust of their OSS work, even if it is good. The main reason that I don't like the patent grant isn't because of React specifically, it's because Facebook revokes ANY patents if you sue them for patent infringement, even ones unconcerned with the technology you're suing them for. This is why I prefer OSS licenses with explicit patent grants better, because they're worded in such a way that the only patent grants you lose are the ones that concern the technology under license (see Apache 2.0).