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mygo on Aug 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Explaining React's license

Wrong. Without patents file there is an implicit patent grant.

cakeface on Aug 21, 2017 | [–]

I was wondering about this as I hadn't heard of it before. Found this http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence .

It seems like yes it's true that there is an implicit grant, but it's not well established in case law.

abiox on Aug 20, 2017 | [–]

exactly what patents are covered by this 'implicit grant'?

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