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What's the rationale behind putting this on github and asking for contributions, but having the code under a proprietary (non open source) license?


The project author and Facebook legal appear not to be in sync. The license does not grant the right to distribute the software as-is (a fork) or publicly with modifications, but the CONTRIBUTING.md file asks potential contributors to do both of these things:

> We actively welcome your pull requests. Fork the repo and create your branch from master.




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