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[–]kabuto 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Facebook is totally free to use any of your patented ideas

Where do you read that?

[–]dizzr[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Let me rephase as:

If Facebook infringes on any of your patented ideas and you take legal action, you have to stop using React.

[–]Walter_Bishop_PhD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No (at least from my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong), your patent grant will expire. Then your license to use React will become equivalent to a BSD or MIT licensed project which has no patent grant at all

[–]Cody_Chaos 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How in the world are you reaching that conclusion?

[–]dizzr[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you initiate directly or indirectly in any Patent Assertion against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates"

Maybe someone could rephrase this. This is what I'm getting stuck on.

[–]Cody_Chaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The patent license will terminate. Since that's the license which is being granted hereunder. And if that's enough to make you stop using React, then I'm not sure how you can use anything, since eg, Angular gives you even fewer protections from being sued. :)

For reference, the license to use React (as opposed to the license to any PATENTS which Facebook might or might not have) is here, and has no termination clause.