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It's very, very common that if you send an email to the relevant people, they'll sign off on whatever so long as it's not relevant to the business. They don't r
by vertex-four 9y ago
It's very, very common that if you send an email to the relevant people, they'll sign off on whatever so long as it's not relevant to the business. They don't really want to retain control over your random side-projects.
Google, on the other hand, seems to believe that absolutely everything its employees ever do is relevant to its business.
- mseebach 9y agoThey explicitly don't "retain control" (beyond insisting that it's published in their name). It's Apache 2 licensed. Indeed, the main dev has forked it into his private Github account: https://github.com/echeran/clojure-turtle https://github.com/echeran/clojure-turtle
- orangecat 9y agoGoogle has IARC (https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/), which is a formal process of sending email to the relevant people, and results in a much better legal position than "Bob said it was ok".
- vertex-four 9y agoIndeed they do - the issue being that according to a handful of Googlers I know, it's surprisingly difficult to get anything through that process.
- DannyBee 9y agoThat's really strange, since we've approved >96% of requests, and except for when someone is on vacation, it's usually within 3 days now. Given how many reply to the approval emails that they found it fast and happy, i definitely find this surprising. In any case, you are welcome to have those employees reach out to me, i'd love to understand their experience what went wrong.