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Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries

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

MrPlow writes:

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: 2) by tibman on Tuesday July 18 2017, @10:50PM (1 child)

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 18 2017, @10:50PM (#541209)

    Don't have to embed your view into javascript with React? I'd prefer to keep my templates/dom out of my js.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @02:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @02:46AM (#541286)

    I prefer to keep JS out of my DOM. For quite some time my dislike towards JS has grown substantially due to its misuse and abuse. Been surfing most of the web without JS and I build sites without it where I can.

    Fuck JS and its fucked up manipulation that people now use it for.