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Pick a username Email Address Password Sign up for GitHub by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/facebook-has-taken-the-name-of-my-open-source-project--yyxbtgv2r og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yYXbtGV2r.png og:image:alt: “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 25 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Pick a username Email Address Password Sign up for GitHub by clicking “Signup for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## 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... --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/facebook-has-taken-the-name-of-my-open-source-project--yyxbtgv2r) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"“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","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/facebook-has-taken-the-name-of-my-open-source-project--yyxbtgv2r"},"datePublished":"2020-11-15T19:24:17.909Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. 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