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Anyone knows why so many non-google product project (with a big disclaimer that this is not google) are hosted on google's github?
by beshrkayali 9y ago
Anyone knows why so many non-google product project (with a big disclaimer that this is not google) are hosted on google's github?
- snuxoll 9y agoGuessing these were made in an employees 20% time or something similar, they felt it would be useful to publish them but not take flak when it has bugs or they don’t actually support it.
- jjn2009 9y agoI would guess these types are projects are ones done in 20% time at google.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- kakarot 9y agoThat guy who blasted Google on HN a while back (not the memo guy) said that since new management has come in over the last few years, 20% time is as good as dead. I couldn't find a link, sorry.
- petters 9y agoBecause Google owns the source code per the employee contact.
- kyrra 9y agoIt is much easier as a Google employee to publish open source projects under Google's copyright rather than getting them to grant the copyright to you. To have Google give you (the Google employee) full copyright of projects you work on while at Google, you need to go through a committee[0] that reviews the project to make sure it doesn't collide with some other project Google already is working on. As this is really hard to do for many projects, it's easier to just let Google keep copyright ownership of it and have it opensource under them. [0] https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
- beshrkayali 9y agoThanks for info and the link!