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FB‘s open source projects are one of the few things they are doing right, so why avoid them? AFAIK the licenses are ok, so they are interchangeable in the end a
by manmal 9y ago
FB‘s open source projects are one of the few things they are doing right, so why avoid them? AFAIK the licenses are ok, so they are interchangeable in the end as maintainers.
- TAForObvReasons 9y agoReact may have changed to MIT but React-Native and other projects still use the BSD+Patents license. EDIT: this apparently was fixed last month.
- focuser 9y agoReact Native has been updated to MIT too: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE
- mecha9 9y agoActually now React Native uses the MIT license, this was changed in February: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/26684cf3adf4094eb6c405d345a75bf8c7c0bf88 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/26684cf3adf4...
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- amelius 9y agoIt's not the quality of the code I'm concerned about. It's more a matter of principle, and the fact that every use of their software possibly contributes to their reputation and appeal to highly qualified developers.
- newnewpdro 9y agoYep, participation is a form of advocacy.
- tomc1985 9y ago> AFAIK the licenses are ok What about that patent license noncompetition thing? That's cool? Or did that get pulled?
- sushid 9y agoIt's been changed. https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246/relicensing-react-jest-flow-and-immutable-js/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246/relicensing-...
- murph-almighty 9y agoIt's only been changed for their most popular projects, though.