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AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement | TechTarget

Elasticsearch has sued AWS for trademark infringement and false advertising in connection with the cloud giant's recently released version the widely used Elasticsearch distributed analytics and search engine. Elasticsearch Inc., or Elastic, is based on the open-source Lucene project and Elastic serves as originator and primary maintainer. Tensions flared in March when AWS, along with Expedia and

daikikohara 2019/10/02

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A patent lawsuit against GNOME [LWN.net]

daikikohara 2019/09/26

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Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

Next week, we are going to relicense our open source projects React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js under the MIT license. We’re relicensing these projects because React is the foundation of a broad ecosystem of open source software for the web, and we don’t want to hold back forward progress for nontechnical reasons. This decision comes after several weeks of disappointment and uncertainty for our

daikikohara 2017/09/23

おー、マジか。変えないと思ってたけど炎上したおかげなのかな。

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Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise

daikikohara 2017/09/22

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The Facebook Patent License Punishes You For Suing Facebook, But Lets Them Sue You

There's been a lot of discussion recently about the Facebook patent clause ("PATENTS" in Facebook repositories). While most of the objections to the license have focused on the patent revocation provisions, most of the defense focuses on the patent grant. This has meant that both sides are talking past each other, and casual readers are getting confused about what this is all about. The Facebook p

daikikohara 2017/09/17

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The React license for founders and CTOs

A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD+Patents license. Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice. Facebook decided to relicense React, React Native, and a few other projects under the MIT license. This post, published a couple weeks before React was relicensed, discusses the Facebook BSD+Patents license, which React and React Native used to use and which other

daikikohara 2017/09/11

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FacebookのBSD+PATENTSライセンスについて : 企業法務について

エンジニアとのミーティングでFacebookのBSD+PATENTSライセンスについての当社の対応方針を質問されたのですが、その時点ではこの騒動を全く認識しておらず、「えっ、初耳です」的な、法務としてはなんとも情けないリアクションをしてしまうことになったので、ちょっと調べてみました。という書き出しでことの概要をまとめようと思ったのですが、マンサバにきっちりまとめられていたので概要はそちらを参照していただくとして、ここではこのライセンスとどう向き合うべきかを書いてみたいと思います。【OSSと特許の関係】ライセンス条件に従っているにも関わらずOSSの利用が第三者の権利侵害を構成するというという状況にしっくりこない方もいらっしゃるかもしれませんが、仮にOSSが提供している機能について当該OSSと全く無関係の第三者が特許権を保有していた場合、当該OSSの利用は特許権侵害となる可能性が高いはず