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Why does the Facebook license try to push an agenda with a perpendicular concern to the open sourcing of Reactjs? Was the purpose of opensourcing Reactjs a way
by batmansmk 9y ago
Why does the Facebook license try to push an agenda with a perpendicular concern to the open sourcing of Reactjs?
Was the purpose of opensourcing Reactjs a way to not get sued? They lost credibility in my eyes on their intention.
- zodiac 9y agoThere was an article about that recently - it wasn't proactively pushing an agenda so much as, if FB wanted to release any software as OS, without the grant, the lawyers would have had to review every commit to avoid violating someone else's patent.
- Flenser 9y agoDo you have a link? That would be interesting to read.
- carussell 9y agohttps://medium.com/@ji/the-react-license-for-founders-and-ctos-b38d2538f3e5 https://medium.com/@ji/the-react-license-for-founders-and-ct... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15214508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15214508
- Flenser 9y agoThank you very much. That's very informative.
- whipoodle 9y agoWhat exactly is the agenda they are alleged to be pushing?