The react license had "we won't sue you for violating our patents, except if you sue us first.", which entails "if you use this, you can't sue us for violating

The react license had "we won't sue you for violating our patents, except if you sue us first.", which entails "if you use this, you can't sue us for violating your patents, because by using this you guarantee that we have material for a countersuit." People felt that this asymmetrically benefited Facebook. You want Facebook to be on the other side of such an agreement. If a license was made that came with an agreement that neither party can sue anyone in an offensive patent suit, it would limit the destructive power of the big players that hold all the patents. If BatchNorm, ConvNets, LSTMs, Dropout, ReLUs or any such essential neural net component came with such a clause, I could see the big players accepting the license, especially since it aligns with their publicly stated claim that they only file patents for defensive purposes.