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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-say-no dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:09PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:09PM (#541022)

    When a tricycle isn't safe enough, fit some more wheels on there. The retarded kids might fall down and skin a knee. You need the best talent for your project. Best means cheapest. The only kids you can afford are the retarded kids, and you know they can't be trained to be careful.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:25PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:25PM (#541033)

    Right, because master coders make flawless code /s

    I presume you code only in assembly, anything else is just wasting cpu cycles.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:29PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:29PM (#541038)

      Yep, when I shit, I shit gold nuggets.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:35PM (#541150)

        Yes, but HOW FAST?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @10:43PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @10:43PM (#541207)

          Depends on the size of the blockchain.

  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:28PM (4 children)

    by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:28PM (#541037) Journal

    It's not that manually fucking with the DOM everywhere is difficult to learn, it's that it's time-consuming to build and maintain when compared to available alternatives. To me, that's worth something. GP's assembly comparison stands.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:31PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:31PM (#541039)

      If only there were some way to write a suitably licensed replacement for react.js that does what Apache needs.

      • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:54PM

        by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:54PM (#541060) Journal

        So [js.org] it [infernojs.org] goes. [vuejs.org] The funny gotcha about this whole mess is that facebook hasn't said which patents it has that it believes pertain to React, so all of these libraries (and others like them) could be infringing on the same patents -- just without a special exemption and subsequent Dead hand from facebook. We don't know. Of course, that chance exists with pretty much any sufficiently complicated open source project, but facebook's patent clause should make us adjust our probabilities with regards to virtual DOM diffing libraries.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @09:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @09:53PM (#541188)
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:31PM (#541040)

      And try and debug someone else's clusterfuck of ad-hoc javascript events....