Use Flow & prettier

[rtfeldman]

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[dustinfarris]

Flow's license is BSD+Patents. Does that now extend to elm-css, and, by further extension, to my project? Just curious.

[rtfeldman]

I found a discussion on this, and the interpretation that seemed most likely to be accurate to me is "that wouldn't make sense." That said, "wouldn't make sense" from anyone but a lawyer isn't worth much in my book.

This comment is making me wonder if I should just move it to TypeScript so I don't have to worry about this ever again. 😛

[rtfeldman]

Although since TypeScript actually emits the code that gets published, it's actually more likely that TypeScript would carry an Apache2 License along with it. (That's far less burdensome than BSD+FBPatents, of course, but my preference is that elm-css's BSD-3-Clause license is all there is to it.)

[rtfeldman]

Thinking about it more, it would be hard to believe this would be a problem. After all, gcc is licensed under the GPL; it type-checks and emits code, and people have been using it to compile and emit non-GPL code for decades.

I can't find anything in Flow's LICENSE or PATENTS file that would lead me to believe differently, so my default thinking is that it's fine until I hear otherwise from a lawyer. 😄