lala45

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   by lala45 4y ago

   I’m not a lawyer, but from my perspective, that’s indeed a concern. And perhaps you could get sued just by using React. It could differ between jurisdictions as well. A standard open source license with a patent grant, like the Apache licen
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   by lala45 4y ago

   Free Software is an established term, and React certainly is not Free Software, due to its patent. I very much doubt that React is Open Source either, for the same reason.
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   by lala45 4y ago

   React is patented and Facebook is actively choosing not to offer a patent grant, so unfortunately that’s not the whole story. A fork may not be an option. Perhaps a given organization may not even be allowed to use React, if Facebook decide