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Your license is still whatever your license is.

The PATENTS file is an additional patent grant. The BSD license contains no patent grant, it's just a copyright license.

You can even distribute React as part of an Apache2 project. The Apache2 patent grant explicitly only covers relevant patents the contributors hold.



And possibly also a restriction. It appears to say that if Facebook infringes your patents, you can't defend your patents.




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