---
title: "“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/facebook-has-taken-the-name-of-my-open-source-project--yyxbtgv2r
source_url: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2020-11-15T19:24:17.909Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["tech-news", "github", "open-source"]
upvotes: 25
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 25 upvotes · 3 comments

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## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@felixdotgo** · 3 upvotes

> Sorry because English is not my primary language. All I want to say is we need to upvote all the other posts like this because they remind us how much importance of the license, credits, and effort that other developers have to spend to make great software.

**@valkongr** · 0 upvotes

> And they added an "inspiration" section on readme and..that's it?

**@berkmann18** · 0 upvotes

> This reminds me of the similar situation that happened to Seth Vargo on some Chef tools).
>
>
> Anyway, yet another controversy caused by a FB employee...

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