Open Stack

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).

I forwarded this to legal-discuss, fwiw.