wdt package - Facebook SW patents granting

[Jaroslav Skarvada]

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?

thanks & regards

Jaroslav

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922315
[2] https://github.com/facebook/wdt/blob/master/PATENTS

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 9:12 AM Jaroslav Skarvada  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