Licensing change

[empyrical]

A little while back, React Native was switched from its BSD+PATENTS license to the MIT license

https://twitter.com/reactjs/status/964689022747475968?lang=en
facebook/react-native@26684cf

Right now, a lot of the Qt/Qml-related code in this repo is still under the BSD+PATENTS license (presumably due to the original ReactUbuntu stuff being under that license) - are there any plans to relicense it to MIT?

For the files that were based off of Canonical's ReactUbuntu code, you'll need to reach out to them and see if they're open to relicensing to MIT. Seeing that their repo seems to not have had any updates in a while, they may be open to "passing the torch" to this project.

[maxhora]

@empyrical could you please clarify what are the benefits to have it under MIT instead of BSD+PATENTS license? Thanks!

[maxhora]

Or are there currently some incompatibility issues between licenses?

[empyrical]

It is not incompatible, but enough people took issue with some aspects of the PATENTS license that it hindered adoption of React/GraphQL/etc. and eventually motivated FB to change licenses:

https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
https://medium.com/@shanecurcuru/faq-on-the-facebook-react-js-bsd-patents-license-issue-with-the-apache-software-foundation-5e05131aeaaa (Blog post by the VP of the Apache Software Foundation, worth a look over)

Other popular posts on the matter:

https://medium.com/@raulk/if-youre-a-startup-you-should-not-use-react-reflecting-on-the-bsd-patents-license-b049d4a67dd2
https://hackernoon.com/facebooks-bsd-patents-license-and-how-it-affects-you-66088e052845

I personally was not all that bothered by the PATENTS license, but it might be an issue for other people using this project.