Raúl Kripalani
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Hey Shane, I agree. On the other hand, I do believe that startups should keep their options open, as you never know if you’d be filing for patents yourself, or you may be an acquisition target for a company that forbid BSD-3+strong patent retaliation projects, or simply what will happen down the line.

I would appreciate your input in the follow-up article, which discusses OSS dynamics, licensing, incoherencies in FB’s statements, etc.

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