Raúl Kripalani
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi Dennis Walsh, the defensive termination clause kicks even if you simply accuse Facebook of patent infringement — you don’t even need to sue them, pay retainers nor engage in long legal processes, if I understand correctly.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS

This was confirmed by Heather Meeker (a lawyer who represents FB in OSS affairs) in her recent blog post. She says:

Unless a company decides to sue Facebook (or accuse its products), the termination trigger has no actual effect.

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    Raúl Kripalani

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    🎈 Engineer @ Protocol Labs, working on libp2p. Previously: ConsenSys, Red Hat, FuseSource, Atos, freelance. From Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

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