[Fedora-legal-list] Re: wdt package - Facebook SW patents granting
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 9:12 AM Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
there is Fedora review [1]. The package contains the PATENTS file [2]
which for me seems like additional restrictions of the license (e.g. the
text from the line 14). Is it OK to package it into Fedora?
Yes, this has consistently been considered acceptable in the past,
though Facebook has been phasing this language out due to substantial
community criticism. I would not characterize it as involving
additional restrictions.
Richard
thanks & regards
Jaroslav
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922315
[2] https://github.com/facebook/wdt/blob/master/PATENTS