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andreyf on May 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient

IANAL, but most likely: nothing. Less likely: Facebook counter-sues you for patent infringement and (maybe?) has a slightly better case as long as you keep using it. Your lawyers tell your engineers to rewrite everything without Facebook technologies and it's all a big pain in the ass and you regret ever suing Facebook for patent infringement.

K2L8M11N2 on May 11, 2017 [–]

Would the same still apply to the output of the programs, e.g. could you keep the optimized code generated by Prepack?

andreyf on May 12, 2017 | [–]

That's for the court to decide, assuming Facebook has patents on Webpack. To minimize liability, probably best not to.

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