Apache disallows the Facebook BSD+patent license

Posted Jul 19, 2017 11:35 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Apache disallows the Facebook BSD+patent license by epa
Parent article: Apache disallows the Facebook BSD+patent license

Only if they offered full reciprocity, which they do not.

Apache disallows the Facebook BSD+patent license

Posted Jul 19, 2017 19:13 UTC (Wed) by webmink (guest, #47180) [Link] (2 responses)

What do you mean by "reciprocity" here? Are you asking for Facebook to require licensees to make the same patent grant?

Apache disallows the Facebook BSD+patent license

Posted Jul 20, 2017 9:11 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

No.

The context is 'Perhaps if Facebook's terms restricted retaliation to software patents and business method patents, not all patents, it would be acceptable?'

Facebook does not promise not to enforce software patents and business method patents against the licensee in general. So requiring the licensee to do so is not symmetrical.

Apache disallows the Facebook BSD+patent license

Posted Jul 21, 2017 10:09 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Actually, I was envisaging that Facebook would grant a patent licence except in cases where someone launches a software-patent or business-method-patent suit against Facebook. In that case Facebook would be allowed to retaliate.