I agree that we should not use code under this license. The "Patent Grant" has one of the broadest "patent peace" provisions I have ever seen. I think that most corporate contributors would be very reluctant to agree to it. -----Original Message----- From: Monty Taylor [mailto:mordred@inaugust.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 1:49 PM To: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] [openstack-dev] [javascript] [fuel-ui] Is ReactJS OSI Compliant? Hey legal discuss folks ... 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).

Michael

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