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by ComputerGuru 730 days ago
zstd and mold are personal projects regardless of employer. That said, I didn’t know mold was written by a meta guy.
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lucb1e 730 days ago
Zstd is a personal project? Surely it's not by accident in the Facebook GitHub organization? And that you need to sign a contract on code.facebook.com before they'll consider merging any contributions? That seems like an odd claim, unless it used to be a personal project and Facebook took it over

(https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md#co...)

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ComputerGuru 730 days ago
All Google dev’s personal projects are under the Google account on GH for legal reasons. I assume the same for Facebook. I believe fb championed zstd and lets the dev work on it at work but it was a personal project iirc.
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