> From: Richard Fontana [mailto:font...@opensource.org]
> BSD+Patent is not the React license. React uses the 3-clause BSD
> license along with a patent license grant with some termination language in a
> separate file:
> https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS (which has been
>
Is the final formal SPDX name for React, etc., going to be
"BSD-2-Clause-Patent"?
That's what is listed here:
https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent
Thanks.
--- David A. Wheeler
> -Original Message-
> From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [mailto:spdx-legal-
>
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
Smith, McCoy [mailto:mccoy.sm...@intel.com]
> Adding to the confusion is that FB frequently refers to their React.js
> license as
> "BSD+Patents" (plural), although that nomenclature appears somewhat
> recent (and, I think, post-dates the submission of the "BSD+Patent" --
> singular -- license to
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 05:51:45PM -0400, Wheeler, David A wrote:
> But in that case, I think there needs to be a *speedy* assignment
> (hah!) of a SPDX license id/expression to the React.js license.
There's some previous discussion of that license in [1,2].
Cheers,
Trevor
[1]:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 05:51:45PM -0400, Wheeler, David A wrote:
> Smith, McCoy [mailto:mccoy.sm...@intel.com]
> > Adding to the confusion is that FB frequently refers to their React.js
> > license as
> > "BSD+Patents" (plural), although that nomenclature appears somewhat
> > recent (and, I
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:
