On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:58:40AM +0200, Haïkel wrote: > It appears that since April, 2015, Facebook updated their open source > patent grant. > https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-our-open-source-patent-grant/ > > Some companies like Google decided to ban Facebook software from their > toolbox since. > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271331 > > The actual conditions added to all Facebook projects: > https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/PATENTS > > Potentially, it could mean that no Facebook open source projects can > be shipped in Fedora including high-profile projects like > React.Native. > > The worse being that such javascript library are often bundled without > notice ... The Red Hat legal team looked at this quite recently. FWIW we don't have an objection to code covered by these terms. I don't believe there is a Fedora-based policy reason for objecting to these terms, since even with the patent terms the license is a free software license. (It may be noted that the combination of the BSD license and the Facebook patent terms is GPL-incompatible at least under orthodox GPL compatibility analysis.) Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
