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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.

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From: Monty Taylor [mailto:mordred at inaugust.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 1:49 PM
To: legal-discuss at 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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