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It's all the more interesting because Google makes it ridiculously easy to ask for that permission and get a legally unambiguous go or no go for any side projec
by zaphar 10y ago
It's all the more interesting because Google makes it ridiculously easy to ask for that permission and get a legally unambiguous go or no go for any side projects. It's not like this would have been murky waters.
- jacquesm 10y agoAnd it's also fairly clear that this would have been a 'no'.
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- ChuckMcM 10y agothere was a joke posting on an internal alias that showed the internal /etc/aliases file for Google which had the mailing list going to '|/usr/bin/no'[1] :) I would be interested to know if anyone still there had ever tried that and gotten a yes answer. The three times I used the process it was always denied. [1] To understand the meta-joke there is actually a /usr/bin/yes program but in the standard distribution there isn't a /usr/bin/no :-)
- TeMPOraL 10y agoCalling /usr/bin/yes no will yield you a working "no" program :).
- jacquesm 10y agoI'm disappointed that symlinking to 'no' still produces 'y' when called. Oh well, that'll have to be an alias then. Also, /usr/bin/yes will echo anything you give it.
- bobsil1 10y agoAh, the Indian head wobble.
- DonHopkins 10y agoIf by working you mean an infinite stream of "no"'s. Can google's email servers handle that, or do they need to bring back Google Wave to deliver an infinite stream of "no"'s in realtime, one keypress at a time? Or can they map/reduce an infinite stream of "no"'s into a single "no"?
- zaphar 10y agoI've never seen anyone get a yes for money making side projects. For Open Source projects which uses a slightly different process I've seen people get permission to do them without an explicit CLA. It's pretty hard to find something on the internet or in commerce that isn't somehow competing with Google.
- Tyr42 10y agoMy co-worker worked on some games to sell on the android play market.
- raphlinus 10y agoFrom Google's official opensource documentation on IARC[0]: We don’t approve every project submitted through this process, but historically we’ve been able to rapidly approve the vast majority of them. I personally have had one IARC approved and one denied (and something like a dozen opensource launches), but from what I've seen, the above statement is accurate. [0] https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
- ChuckMcM 10y agoOpen source yes, but if it might earn you a bit of coin, then generally no.
- tdeck 10y agoI work at Google and had a proprietary side project approved despite explicitly stating that I might make money from it. It's not a billion dollar idea or anything, but they didn't automatically say no. Meanwhile a tiny open source project I wanted to keep maintaining got denied rather rudely. I don't understand the process, but it is possible to get an approval. However the fact that you are supposed to ask for an approval to live your own life in your free time does kind of suck the soul out of it.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoExcellent! It is nice to know that it is at least possible to get some things approved.
- joshuamorton 10y agoI know of someone who got an explicit yes, but the project was a toy and didn't really require it.