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It says if you get into a patent disagreement with their company you can no longer use react, whether they sue you, or you sue them. I'm not planning on suing
by danschumann 12y ago
It says if you get into a patent disagreement with their company you can no longer use react, whether they sue you, or you sue them. I'm not planning on suing facebook, but if they sue me, suddenly I have 2 problems, the lawsuit, and not being able to use react anymore.
It should only regard to react. If the clause is to protect their right to develop react, it should only pertain to such.
- mbrock 12y agoPlease don't spread fear and uncertainty based on incorrect understanding of licensing. Suing Facebook does not void your license to use React. It voids your additional patent grant. That's different.
- kendallpark 12y agoSo what does the additional patent grant actually grant?
- realityking 12y agoThe guarantee that Facebook won't sue you if they have patents that apply to React.js. To put it simple, without the patent grant you'd be worse off. But with the Apache 2.0 version you'd be better off.
- nostrademons 12y agoNot quite - there's an implied patent license that comes with licenses that mention nothing about patents, because otherwise nobody could use the code. Once the license explicitly gives a patent grant, it replaces that implied patent license. Think of it like C++ default constructors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515