Update 22nd August 15.10 BST —I wrote another post covering concepts and rationale, including licensing, ASLv2, MPL, OSS contributions, community kindly, etc. Here it is:

Facebook introduced their BSD-3 + patents license 3 years ago

Exactly in October 2014.

Yet no other player in the industry (apart from Palantir) has joined them yet — or at least I wasn’t able to find them.

Notwithstanding, Facebook claims the following in their “Explaining React’s license” article:

We believe that if this license were widely adopted, it could actually reduce meritless litigation for all adopters, and we want to work with others to explore this possibility.

If it really is so wonderful and solves a major headache in the industry — and their purposes are so noble — it begs to ask the question:

“How come almost nobody else in Silicon Valley has followed suit yet?”

Perhaps they will now, with all the attention this issue is bringing. I don’t know.