{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/8952","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/8952/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/8952/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/8952/events","html_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8952","id":166906272,"number":8952,"title":"Please reconsider restrictions in PATENTS (Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2)","user":{"login":"PublicParadise","id":2541332,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2541332?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise","html_url":"https://github.com/PublicParadise","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PublicParadise/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2016-07-21T20:08:10Z","updated_at":"2016-07-22T18:50:48Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I work for a bigger software company and our legal department has advised me to avoid using Facebook's `react-native` framework in any of our products, because of statements made in the second paragraph of Facebook's Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2 in react-native's [PATENTS](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS) file:\r\n\r\n>The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,\r\nif you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate\r\ndirectly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent\r\nAssertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate\r\naffiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or\r\nin part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of\r\nits subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating\r\nto the Software.\r\n\r\nAccording to our legal department, the issue is that if our company initiated a patent claim or lawsuit against Facebook, then our license and right to use the framework would automatically terminate. This would apply if our company sued for any Facebook patent infringement (it’s not limited to the framework). Thus using react-native in any of our products would expose our company to risks we don't feel comfortable taking.\r\n\r\nPlease note that those concerns have also been raised by others (i.e. [Google employees](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271331)) and have unfortunately not been resolved by updating [PATENTS](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS) to version 2 as suggested by https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/402 .\r\n\r\nThank you for reconsidering the second paragraph of Facebook's Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2 in react-native's [PATENTS](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS) file. \r\n\r\nI would love to move forward and recommend choosing `react-native` for one of our future products.\r\nAt this point I cannot do that."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/comments/234625699","html_url":"https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8952#issuecomment-234625699","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/issues/8952","id":234625699,"user":{"login":"RemeJuan","id":864552,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/864552?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan","html_url":"https://github.com/RemeJuan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RemeJuan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-07-22T18:50:48Z","updated_at":"2016-07-22T18:50:48Z","body":"SO you want them to change their terms so that you are legally able to file a lawsuit against them, seems silly to me and more than enough reason for them to NOT change it."}}
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