> 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?
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.
> 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.