On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 12:54:55 PM UTC-7, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > > Should we be worried about bundling our software with software that uses > > this license? > Is the worry that Mozilla not be able to file a patent legal case > against Facebook?
As far as I know Mozilla doesn't hold software patents. But I'm wondering about the impact of this on the value of Firefox as OSS. Would it, for example, possible for some company not to be able to fork Firefox, or use it in some system because it comes with React bundled. In a separate, but related, manner - what does it mean for OSS that we release our software bundled with React? Does it mean that we play into the strategy set by Facebook? How does this affect the value of Test Pilot extension or DevTools as our contribution to the pool of OSS, if it comes with the license in question? How does the license of React source code affect license of Firefox source code? Does it mean that by default, when you embed Firefox (or fork), you're perpetuating the React license? I have to admit that I expected that us using React meant that React was covered by the same license as our codebase is, but I'm no expert in this. Just got curious and a bit surprised with limited amount of communication about the impact of that on us in public. zb. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
