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Typically FAANGs have a clause that they own everything that you code even outside of working hours.


No, Meta’s contract has explicit carve-outs for Open-Source work done on personal time that are more generous than Canonical’s (I had to choose between the two 3 months ago).

Meta has its own production fork of CPython, Cinder:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder


This isn't legal/enforceable in California. Your own work on your own time on your own equipment is your own property. It's messier if you're building a direct competitor or using proprietary knowledge.

There's a whole Silicon Valley episode on this.




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