Fwd: Re: [facebook/react] Consider re-licensing to AL v2.0, as RocksDB has just done (#10191)

[Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>]

Resolved: no change for React.

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From: "Sebastian Markbåge" <no...@github.com>
Date: Aug 18, 2017 19:15
Subject: Re: [facebook/react] Consider re-licensing to AL v2.0, as RocksDB
has just done (#10191)
To: "facebook/react" <re...@noreply.github.com>
Cc: "Greg Stein" <gs...@gmail.com>, "Mention" <me...@noreply.github.com>

As Adam mentioned today
<https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/explaining-react-s-license/>,
we want to be able to open source technology that is part of our most
successful products. That's why we had to rethink how we could approach our
licensing practice without further opening ourselves up to frivolous
lawsuits and why it will remain in place. I'm sorry that this has caused so
much churn in the community. Some even feel like they have to stop using UI
frameworks because of it.

I understand that some organizations may choose to have policies against
this type of license on principle. I like that we clearly include a patent
license in our repo. IMO it would be nice if more companies would choose
this route too. I was surprised by the ASF's decision since our license
hasn't changed in years now. I think that's unfortunate because it works
against companies trying to open up while protecting their business. It
also creates a lot of churn for people building and combining great
technologies. I wish this was normalized.

I'd like to keep working on giving more protection to ideas with many
diverse implementations. Let's create an environment for that to happen.
I'll close this out for now but let's keep the broader discussion going.

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