Re: New License/Exception Request: ANY-PATENT-ASSERTION-TERMINATES-2.0 as a new exception

2017-08-09 Thread W. Trevor King
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 06:22:37PM -0400, Wheeler, David A wrote: > As far as I can tell SPDX currently has no way to report this > information. There's some previous discussion in [1,2]. The current recommendation is to define a custom ID for the patent rider and use that [3], for example:

New License/Exception Request: ANY-PATENT-ASSERTION-TERMINATES-2.0 as a new exception

2017-08-09 Thread Wheeler, David A
INTRODUCTION: Many Facebook projects, including the widely-used React.js, have a different license approach than others: They use a stock OSS license *with* a special patent-related rider (in the case of React.js, this is in a file named PATENTS). This patent rider is asymmetric, which has led