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React is patented and Facebook is actively choosing not to offer a patent grant, so unfortunately that’s not the whole story.

A fork may not be an option. Perhaps a given organization may not even be allowed to use React, if Facebook decides against it for some reason. Jurisdictions can differ as well.

In my opinion, the best thing would be if Facebook simply made the terms clear by using the Apache license or similar. But hey, it’s Facebook, so I’m not expecting much…



>React is patented and Facebook is actively choosing not to offer a patent grant,

By that definition any "Open Source " MIT or BSD licenses that does not offer patent grant has problems.


What patents does Facebook have on React?




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