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by daliwali 4057 days ago
Is there a reason why this is named Facebook PathPicker instead of PathPicker? It seems that the original author is giving up rights of their software to Facebook (it says copyright Facebook right in the license).

What troubles me is that this tool seems completely unrelated to Facebook's business so why must they assert ownership of their employee's side project? On the other hand, it could be the author's intent to give up their rights to Facebook, which seems dumb, there's nothing the author could gain from that other than the Facebook brand in front.
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AdamTReineke 4057 days ago
They probably wrote it at work or on a company machine or discussed it on company time, all of which can make it company property. (Read up on moonlighting.)
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encoderer 4057 days ago
In the time it took you to write all that, you could've answered this question for yourself. He wrote it at work, as part of his job, at Facebook. And if he's not "troubled" by it, why are you?
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