Facebook violates a patent you hold and you’re like “dude, that’s not OK” and you go to litigation.
Facebook’s patent grant retaliation kicks in. It revokes the grant to everything Facebook gave you under BSD+Patents anywhere in the company.
You are now at risk of having to pull products that are completely unrelated because of the patent infringement.
Apache 2’s patent termination is only in regards to entering litigation about that particular piece of software. So if you build three apps using a library, but there’s a patent battle over something in software A, software B and C still have the patent grants.
What is the actual worst case scenario that could result from this patent clause?
For big companies its:
Apache 2’s patent termination is only in regards to entering litigation about that particular piece of software. So if you build three apps using a library, but there’s a patent battle over something in software A, software B and C still have the patent grants.