FSF Says Google’s Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice – Slashdot Personally, I never used nor remember having saw a JPEG-XL picture.I see WebP happily replacing Jpeg and PNG and GIF thought.I just wonder how an open, royalty-free image file format should not be desirable (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF )
Category: Patents
Patents, Software Libero
Explaining React’s license
We clarify the BSD + Patents license. I’m eager to read more knowledgeful reactions to this article: Explaining React’s license | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code
Patents, Proprietary software, Software Libero
Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS – Slashdot
Sorgente: Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS – Slashdot I started to begin to suspect that ReactJs license is not compatible with GPL and other free-as-in-freedom software licenses. It looks like a Trojan horse to me, trying to undermine Free Software nastily using patents in a clever way. Patents on software shouldn’t be conceded
Link
http://react-etc.net/entry/your-license-to-use-react-js-can-be-revoked-if-you-compete-with-facebook
Oh… I’m convinced that people at Automattic have evaluated this issue quite deeply, I dare say.
It seems that they don’t plan to compete with Facebook for quite a long time.
Or does it mean that they think that releasing Calypso under GPL make them safe from any litigation? Quite frankly I doubt it, but I’m not a lawyer so my opinion is not relevant.
People smarter than me already highlighted the issue and Automattic has already made a reasoned decision:
Paul Sieminski, General Legal Counsel for Automattic, responded to the ticket explaining why the company will continue to use React in its products.
As far as I can say it seems a policy similar to RedHat’s one: a defensive use of patents. May we call it a “patent cold-war”?