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Mullenweg: WordPress community forced Meta to reverse restrictive React licensing

Matt Mullenweg · Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand · Mar 2, 2025 · at 25:38

Matt Mullenweg discusses past open-source advocacy battles, citing Meta's decision to relicense React under the MIT license following community backlash.

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“I think it was React that they were doing something with the licensing or like a patent restriction on. And the WordPress community actually got Meta to change that and reverse something they were doing to lock it down.”

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