On 09/07/2016 07:06 AM, Michael Krotscheck wrote: > Preface: IANAL (I-am-not-a-lawyer). > > ReactJS claims to be BSD licensed. However, it has a non-BSD patent > rider with a very aggressive "Strong Retaliation Clause", meaning that > if there's ever a patent dispute between [React Project] and Facebook, > the patents are revoked. > > This might be fine. It might not. If possible, I'd like one of the > foundation lawyers to weigh in on this, as one of our projects (Fuel-UI) > is using it. > > Some discussion on the matter: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108158 > > Our own guidelines. > http://governance.openstack.org/reference/licensing.html > > Historically, OpenStack has avoided projects that make custom > modifications to a license (see the do-no-evil license on JSLint/JSHint).
I forwarded this to legal-discuss, fwiw. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
