On the basis that it is a breach of the further restrictions of Section 6 of the GPLv2?
Pam On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:51 PM Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected] >
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