Bro how many Saddam Hussein memes 😂

I mean yes, but it’s right there: “without deep forethought”. I prefer copyleft but MIT is a popular default choice

Always a relevant xkcd, isn’t there

As someone else said I think the shadowing works well here.

I do also wanna mention that depending on why you need this conversion, you could use impl AsRef<std::path::Path> for your function signature so it can accept &PathBuf or &Path. Then, just use that argument with e.g. p.as_ref() to get a &Path in the function body