Someone found this buried in the terms and conditions of tiktok and is saying that it somehow means Facebook owns it.
What is this actually supposed to be telling me?
BSD 3-clause “New” or “Revised” License (facebook/network-connection-class)
Copyright © 2015, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the name Facebook nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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It just means that tiktok is using a software component that was developed by facebook and that is publicly available for everyone to use.
You want to use it too in a project of yours? You can, but you have to add that license text somewhere!
This doesn’t mean that anyone owns anything, open source software is full of these so-called “libraries” that people reuse in order to not reinvent the wheel constantly.