Is it identical though? My understanding was that Facebook license preserves Facebook's right to sure you for patent infringement but prohibits you from suing Facebook (and more importantly anyone Facebook designates as its minion) for patent infringement. So your patent portfolio is worthless if you want to use Facebook software because I'd imagine anyone can appeal Facebook for patronage?
I thought it was a good thing personally because patent lawsuits are a waste of everyone's time but apparently enough people disagree.
Not that I know anything. Sorry for rambling. Point is I want to ask the question: are they (practically) identical?
The Apache patent grant and retaliation clause says that if you issue a lawsuit alleging that the licensed software infringes on a patent, then you lose your patent grant to that software.
The old Facebook license said that if you issue a patent lawsuit against Facebook, you lose the license to the software. That is in addition to the retaliation clause about the software itself.
So if you are using any OSS from Facebook, and then Facebook comes in and infringes on some unrelated patent you own, you need to stop using that software before suing or you just don't sue.
I thought it was a good thing personally because patent lawsuits are a waste of everyone's time but apparently enough people disagree.
Not that I know anything. Sorry for rambling. Point is I want to ask the question: are they (practically) identical?