“Sadly, this has facebook's new, horrible patent clause.” (comment)
recommended by 1 user | 2015 | DannyBee on: Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules | open source | original thread |
DannyBee on Jan 16, 2015 | on: Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules | view on HN

Sadly, this has facebook's new, horrible patent clause.

For those who aren't aware, it says

1. If facebook sues you, and you counterclaim over patents (whether about software or not), you will lose rights under all these patent grants.

So essentially you can't defend yourself.

This is different than the typical apache style patent grant, which instead would say "if you sue me over patents in apache licensed software x, you lose rights to software x" (IE it's limited to software, and limited to the thing you sued over)

2. It terminates if you challenge the validity of any facebook patent in any way. So no shitty software patent busting!

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nostrademons Feb 26, 2015 | on: Ask HN: Is it safe to use Facebook's open source projects? | context

Also here, which IMHO is more informative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901357