Is FB Patent abusive or just unclear ?

[facebook]

Is FB Patent abusive or just unclear ?

[bootstraponline]

context: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-our-open-source-patent-grant/

[stephanenicolas]

Thx for the context, but still, I think there is something strange regarding what I introduced initially.

[bertmaher]

Thanks for your concerns, but this is our standard license/patent grant text. None of us are lawyers and as such are not qualified to comment or take any action on this.

[stephanenicolas]

is it possible to send it to the legal department ? I am not a lawyer neither but I think it's a concern some devs would have. At least do I.. :)

[stephanenicolas]

@bertmaher some action should definitely be taken here, you can't just wipe out this kind of question. If you add a licence you must find a way to answer questions about it..

I know you work for a big US company and that means everyone is protecting itself legally as much as possible, and it's for sure not you as a dev who decided to go for it. But if a dev has a question on the licence of the OSS project you maintain, that should be answered.

[bertmaher]

I will reopen this and pass your question on to legal.

[stephanenicolas]

Thx @bertmaher

[bertmaher]

Hey @stephanenicolas, I checked with our lawyer, and I'm afraid I still can't give you much here, since we can't give legal advice via GitHub issues. But, thanks for your feedback on the license -- we do listen to feedback, as this is actually v2 of our standard license. You can read some community discussion of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356508. Beyond that, you'd need to speak with your own lawyer.

[stephanenicolas]

Lol. I was not aware I had to take a lawyer to code OSS ;)

Thx for asking though.

Le jeu. 14 avr. 2016 10:46, Bert Maher [email protected] a écrit :

Closed #52 #52.

—
You are receiving this because you were mentioned.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#52 (comment)