On the basis that it is a breach of the further restrictions of Section 6 of the GPLv2?

Pam

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:51 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:58:40AM +0200, Haïkel wrote:
> It appears that since April, 2015, Facebook updated their open source
> patent grant.
> https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-our-open-source-patent-grant/
>
> Some companies like Google decided to ban Facebook software from their
> toolbox since.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271331
>
> The actual conditions added to all Facebook projects:
> https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/PATENTS
>
> Potentially, it could mean that no Facebook open source projects can
> be shipped in Fedora including high-profile projects like
> React.Native.
>
> The worse being that such javascript library are often bundled without
> notice ...

The Red Hat legal team looked at this quite recently. FWIW we don't
have an objection to code covered by these terms. I don't believe
there is a Fedora-based policy reason for objecting to these terms,
since even with the patent terms the license is a free software
license.

(It may be noted that the combination of the BSD license and the
Facebook patent terms is GPL-incompatible at least under orthodox GPL
compatibility analysis.)

Richard
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