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by wayneftw 1778 days ago
The WordPress group isn't part of the community? That it's a big org is a distinction you're making, not me. Open source communities are full of big organizations.

And now that the genie is out of the bottle anyone can do as they please with this fairly small rendering library and Facebook can't stop them. So I'm still not sure what the concern about Facebook is?
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rk06 1778 days ago
The problem was that:

1. They chose to insert the clause and refused to use standard MIT license despite complaints from community and their own developers

2. They are the kind of company who chose to do shady stuff despite complaints from community and their own developers

#1 was fixed. #2 is still the case and may come to bite back in future. That is the concern

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wayneftw 1778 days ago
So, nothing more than ambiguous conjecture? Got it.

Well, I'm pretty happy using it and I certainly don't lose any sleep over Facebook having built it. Quite the opposite - I thank them for it! Nobody can take away my rights to freely available MIT licensed code.

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