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The library for web and native user interfaces.
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License clarification #7293

Closed ashfurrow closed 7 years ago

ashfurrow commented 8 years ago

Good morning! I came across this blog post which says that the BSD license of React is terminated if a React user competes with Facebook, as per the patent clause addition. There seems to be a lot of confusion around what the clause actually means, so I was wondering if you might consider adding a tl;dr summarizing the clause and it's motivation in the readme. This would clear a lot of confusion up and let everyone focus more on building cool stuff. Thanks!

Update from Maintainers

We worked with our legal team to post a FAQ addressing the most common misconceptions.

gaearon commented 7 years ago

We’re relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js under the MIT license. I hope that this addresses your concerns.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246/relicensing-react-jest-flow-and-immutable-js/