I'm going to assume that the end of the article is hinting that there is some sort of IP battle over the Go package in question i/e perhaps OP mistakenly worked

I'm going to assume that the end of the article is hinting that there is some sort of IP battle over the Go package in question i/e perhaps OP mistakenly worked on the project during work hours or over company bandwidth. Either way, should have taken the Benjamins.