A few weeks ago, the Apache Software Foundation (the ASF) made a decision to list the BSD + Patents license as a Category-X license. This move affects users of much of Facebook’s open source software, but especially the popular React project and the constellation of projects around it. As a result, many have asked us to consider relicensing React and all of our other open source projects. What has
![Explaining React’s license](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/2fd1b3e679fbd922212dfedf978b09d0b8ccaa3c/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.fb.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2Fgd6howhhcsnjy7ceaaaaaadduae0bj0jaaab.jpg)