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by erichocean 3541 days ago
Apache 2 (the original React license, BTW) encompasses all of the legal protections and goals Facebook admits to publicly.

The current BSD license plus "additional patent grant", however, grants Facebook additional rights beyond the Apache 2 license that they refuse to admit to in their public communications, including this idiotic "FAQ". That's the "bad faith": Facebook won't publicly own up to why they want a worldwide, royalty free right to use a third-party's patents that have nothing to do with the software Facebook is licensing to them.

They don't own up publicly because it's unethical.