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> Now if you turn around and use the author for patent infringement for something else, you lose the patent grant that came with the software, and you are back to a normal plain old BSD license.

> The BSD + Patents license is strictly better than the regular BSD/MIT licenses. You lose no rights, you may gain some patent protection.

Could you provide a citation backing up your claims?

if you read the patent grant for yourself:

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS

There's no mention of any patent grant coming with the software

>> "The license granted hereunder will terminate"

"The license" here is the one defined as:

>> Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software ("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any Necessary Claims, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Software

and the "Sofware" here is the one defined as :

>> "Software" means the React software distributed by Facebook, Inc.



You left out the definition of "Necessary Claims":

> > A "Necessary Claim" is a claim of a patent owned by Facebook that is necessarily infringed by the Software standing alone.


Ok I see. But if you loose the license to any of those patents, you are infringing those patents by merely using React, aren't you?

I understand the followup question other people have now: What are those patents?




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