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diff --git a/thirdparty/zstd/PATENTS b/thirdparty/zstd/PATENTS deleted file mode 100644 index 15b4a2ea5c..0000000000 --- a/thirdparty/zstd/PATENTS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2 - -"Software" means the Zstandard software distributed by Facebook, Inc. - -Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software -("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable -(subject to the termination provision below) license under any Necessary -Claims, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise -transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no license is granted under -Facebookâs rights in any patent claims that are infringed by (i) modifications -to the Software made by you or any third party or (ii) the Software in -combination with any software or other technology. - -The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, -if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate -directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent -Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate -affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or -in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of -its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating -to the Software. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its -subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent -infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a -patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is -unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate -under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim. - -A "Necessary Claim" is a claim of a patent owned by Facebook that is -necessarily infringed by the Software standing alone. - -A "Patent Assertion" is any lawsuit or other action alleging direct, indirect, -or contributory infringement or inducement to infringe any patent, including a -cross-claim or counterclaim. |