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

> Once their is an explicit grant, any implicit grant you would have gotten is extinguished.

The BSD license grants explicit rights to use the software, thereby granting implicit rights to use the patents in the software while using the software as it is intended to be used.

The sentence "redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted" doesn't go away because there is an "additional grant of patent rights".

DannyBee on Aug 19, 2017 [–]

Actually, it does! Courts will not find implied licenses when there is an explicit one. That's the whole definition of implied vs explicit!

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