[License-discuss] Views on React licensing?

[Alex Rousskov]

On 12/12/2016 10:05 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
>> Many people, including significant producers of BSD software, believe
>> that the BSD license is also a patent license.

> MIT is on record as saying that the MIT license, which is otherwise
> equivalent to the 2-clause BSD license, does *not* grant a patent license.

While MIT's current opinion is obviously important, it does not resolve
the question of whether a given license text (including the license text
called the "MIT license") grants a patent license. In fact, the opinion
of "many" license users might be more important here than the opinion of
the license author. Ultimately, only the courts can resolve this ambiguity.

Alex.