Preact, React alternative without weird Patents License
I&#x27;m a technology lawyer. I deal with a fairly high volume of open source licenses and I write a lot of software licenses. I&#x27;m also a former developer and still have hobby projects I write mostly in javascript - primarily in Node.<p>I&#x27;ve read the BSD+Patents licenses. What am I missing? It seems like it is designed to reduce the power of patent trolls and to reduce the power of people who use software written by facebook to sue facebook for patent infringement - which, IMHO  - is pretty reasonable, especially given that I think it is an absurdity that software is ever granted patents in the first place (something being rectified, albeit slowly, in the post &#x27;Alice&#x27; world).<p>So, what am I missing? Are there any other actual lawyers who can weigh in on this? Because I see a lot of FUD on here written by a lot of arm-chair lawyers and, when I go to read the licenses (which I do) I&#x27;m just not seeing it. I very much believe in evidence and I am always open to counter-arguments - so please, show me the problematic clauses or the problematic exercise of clauses by Facebook.<p>As of now, all I see is a license (probably written by Goodwin Proctor or Fenwick &amp; West) with a restriction on initiating patent-based litigation - I can live with this. Again - I&#x27;m happy to stand corrected.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m not your attorney, this is not legal advice, this is not an official legal opinion nor the opinion of my law firm.