It's a standard BSD license except if you sue Facebook for patent infringement. FAQ
IMO the biggest issue is not being standard. Most big companies have there legal departments check and approve standard licenses like MIT, Apache2 etc... This is something different. Different is scary.
The BSD + patent licence put developers in position to choose OSS libraries for non-technical reasons -> the licence. Some examples are Wordpress and the Apache foundation.
Facebook's position was that if everyone started using this license, it would cut down on patent litigation. That might be true but I don't think it would be a good legal deterrent in practice. On the one hand, if you ask your legal department's permission to use React, they probably won't get on board with being bound to never sue Facebook; they don't care how great React is. On the other hand, if you use React without getting permission from Legal, and your company is thinking about suing Facebook over patent infringement and they find out about React, it might be a deterrent. But you can also bet some engineers are going to get fired.
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It's a standard BSD license except if you sue Facebook for patent infringement. FAQ
IMO the biggest issue is not being standard. Most big companies have there legal departments check and approve standard licenses like MIT, Apache2 etc... This is something different. Different is scary.
So would you consider the backlash to be overblown?
The BSD + patent licence put developers in position to choose OSS libraries for non-technical reasons -> the licence. Some examples are Wordpress and the Apache foundation.
I think is's good they changed it.
Facebook's position was that if everyone started using this license, it would cut down on patent litigation. That might be true but I don't think it would be a good legal deterrent in practice. On the one hand, if you ask your legal department's permission to use React, they probably won't get on board with being bound to never sue Facebook; they don't care how great React is. On the other hand, if you use React without getting permission from Legal, and your company is thinking about suing Facebook over patent infringement and they find out about React, it might be a deterrent. But you can also bet some engineers are going to get fired.