FINAL EDIT — weeks after this article was published, Facebook changed their licensing model for React et al. to MIT. Open source activism works! [EDIT — My argument is a cautionary one, I’ve made some edits in that direction. I am not a lawyer, but I argue that — as a startup — if I’d want to keep my doors open to any future outcome, offer, exit, proposal, FB’s OSS licenses may pose an obstacle un
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