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It's pretty hard for someone externally to discover this, but Google has 20k+ software engineers, and I believe they all have access to the monorepo. All it tak
by mseebach 9y ago
It's pretty hard for someone externally to discover this, but Google has 20k+ software engineers, and I believe they all have access to the monorepo. All it takes is a single person with a grudge to leak a single screenshot to the right people, and Google is facing an immense lawsuit.
- jacques_chester 9y agoI am not a lawyer, but I expect that the core defences to such a lawsuit would be showing that you had a policy against using such code, showing you take active measures to avoid introducing it and showing rapid action if someone brings an example to your attention. I don't think it would be an "enormous lawsuit", except against the individual trying to maliciously introduce code against policy in order to harm their employer. Torts ahoy.
- mseebach 9y agoYes, I agree that this policy provides reasonable guards against someone introducing AGPL by accident, or even maliciously. But I took GP's point to imply a hypothetical where Google decides to more or less actively flaunt the restriction.
- jacques_chester 9y agoAh, I see I was a bit narrowly focused. btw -- "flout" is usually what's meant in terms of breaking laws, rules etc. It's basically a pedant's dream, which is doubly appropriate in a legal context.