Facebook to Re-license React after Backlash from Open Source Community
Facebook has announced its intentions to re-license React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js under the MIT license. React community members began rallying around a petition to re-license React after the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) added Facebook’s BSD+Patents license to its Category X list of disallowed licenses for Apache PMC members. Facebook’s engineering directors officially denied the request in mid-August, citing the burden of meritless patent litigation as the reason for keeping the patents clause. Facebook moved forward on this decision in full recognition that it might lose some React community members as a consequence. Many open source project maintainers began to look for alternatives. In a surprising move, Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress would also be parting ways with React and planned to remove it from the upcoming Gutenberg editor.
Mullenweg’s decision to drop React from consideration for WordPress was likely an influential factor in Facebook’s eventual about-face on the topic of re-licensing the project. Facebook’s announcement on Friday acknowledges that the company failed to convince the open source community of the benefits of
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