> This is why companies care about OSS licenses and sudden changes in those licenses. It's not out of pettiness. Automattic dropped React just for this very rea

> This is why companies care about OSS licenses and sudden changes in those licenses. It's not out of pettiness. Automattic dropped React just for this very reason. I believe the blog post [0] by the Automattic CEO where he announced plans to drop React played a significant role in causing Facebook to re-evaluate [1] the React license terms, considering that at that time, WordPress powered more than 25% of all websites. [0]: https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/ https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/ [1]: https://code.fb.com/web/relicensing-react-jest-flow-and-immutable-js/ https://code.fb.com/web/relicensing-react-jest-flow-and-immu...