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Yes to my non-lawyerish understanding making it a clause in the BSD license would be different - it would no longer be a BSD license but rather a new (non OSI)
by ThisCourtIsAnal 9y ago
Yes to my non-lawyerish understanding making it a clause in the BSD license would be different - it would no longer be a BSD license but rather a new (non OSI) license containing provisions regarding patents.
I agree that software patents are evil but then so are many other parts of the modern legal system, but even with them it feels that what facebook (and other companies) are doing shouldn't have any legal standing - see my comment down the original thread.
- chii 9y ago> it would no longer be a BSD license and i'd argue that the license that facebook is using _is_ indeed a new license! It's BSD plus something added to it! Unless the end user has the choice to not take the patent clause ("grant") as part of their license. IANAL, so i dont know if it is possible to cherry pick like this.
- ThisCourtIsAnal 9y agoIt wouldn't be a "grant" if the user didn't have a choice of not taking it. Consider if somewhere in the repo there was a file called GOATS which conditioned the right to use react on having goats sacrificed to facebook every new moon, would it make react BSD+Goats licensed ?