Ask HN: Is it safe to use Facebook's open source projects?

Heykuki News

160 points

11 years ago

There is a PATENTS file in almost all Facebook's open source projects with statements on "Additional Grant of Patent Rights".

E.g., React (https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS)

Why Facebook adds this declaration on top of the BSD license of the software? Is it safe to use those projects in my commercial project?

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