Shane Curcuru
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

It’s interesting today finding all the scattered discussions about this issue over the past few years. The big “news” from 2017 is that the ASF put Facebook’s PATENTS-added BSD license onto the Category X list, meaning that no Apache projects can ship this source code going forward.

For other projects, there are three aspects to consider: legal, technical, and community — I cover them here:

https://medium.com/@shanecurcuru/three-reactions-to-the-facebook-patents-license-b64e6942012b

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