# Facebook grants full patent rights to all GraphQL users

DevFeed: [Facebook grants full patent rights to all GraphQL users](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/facebook-grants-full-patent-rights-to-all-graphql-users-23297.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/facebook-grants-full-patent-rights-to-all-graphql-users-2c41abc6df66>)

Author: Sashko Stubailo

Published: 2017-09-26T23:58:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [facebook](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/facebook.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports licensing changes for Facebook's GraphQL projects. The GraphQL specification moved to the Open Web Foundation Agreement v1.0, which grants necessary patent rights, while GraphQL.js and Relay moved to the MIT license.

## Source excerpt

The last month has been an interesting time in the React and GraphQL communities, with a lot of discussion about different software licenses, patent grants, and patents involved in the GraphQL specification. Today, just a few days after React was relicensed to MIT, I'm excited to report that GraphQL is joining in, and all of these issues can finally be put to rest.