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But my understanding is that some patent grant is better than no patent grant. The controversy was about the termination clause favouring Facebook, but it’s sti

But my understanding is that some patent grant is better than no patent grant. The controversy was about the termination clause favouring Facebook, but it’s still better than not having it. Surely the only true solution would have been to switch to a license that has a more liberal patent grant, eg Apache 2?

Sacho 9y ago
You could make an argument that the MIT license has an "implicit patent grant" due to its wording - check out http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence I don't think much around patents and software is settled, partly because of the reluctance of big players to use software patents.