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The Apache Foundation has declared that none of its new software projects can include Facebook's booby-trapped BSD-licensed code.
The foundation's legal affairs director, Chris Mattmann, said over the weekend that libraries, frameworks and tools covered by Facebook's open-source-ish BSD-plus-Patents license should not be absorbed into any new projects.
"No new project, sub-project or codebase, which has not used Facebook BSD+Patents licensed jars (or similar), are allowed to use them," Mattmann wrote. "In other words, if you haven't been using them, you aren't allowed to start. It is Cat‑X."
The Cat‑X or "Category X" classification means a library is not allowed to be included with any Apache product.
Additionally, he said, any existing projects that rely on the BSD+Patents licensed libraries will have until August 31 to get rid of Facebook's code and find a suitable replacement that has been approved by the foundation.
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/17/apache_says_no_to_facebook_code_libraries/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:43PM (4 children)
But but but react.js is the darling of rockstar hipsters. Everyone will leave in a whiny huff and Apache will die without hip young coders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:48PM
Good riddance to all of them.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:57PM (2 children)
React.js is old news. All the cool kids are doing Vue.js now.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:15PM (1 child)
I can't get enough of video.js because <video> is sooooooooo haaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:32PM
Is this why all my favorite, uh, jazz video websites stopped working recently?