> This is why companies care about OSS licenses and sudden changes in those licenses. It's not out of pettiness. Automattic dropped React just for this very reason.
I believe the blog post [0] by the Automattic CEO where he announced plans to drop React played a significant role in causing Facebook to re-evaluate [1] the React license terms, considering that at that time, WordPress powered more than 25% of all websites.
[0]: https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/
[1]: https://code.fb.com/web/relicensing-react-jest-flow-and-immu...
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