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It’s interesting for me to see a project made mostly by 1 person that happens to be employed by Google described as “by Google”. [1] Not that there’s no truth t
by shurcooL 7y ago
It’s interesting for me to see a project made mostly by 1 person that happens to be employed by Google described as “by Google”. [1] Not that there’s no truth to it, just that the reality is much more nuanced than a simple phrase can capture.
[1] https://github.com/cuelang/cue/graphs/contributors https://github.com/cuelang/cue/graphs/contributors
- gravypod 7y agoIt looks like Google owns the project and that, to contribute, you have to turn over copyrights [0]. I think the ownership makes it "by Google" more than employing the main dev. [0] - https://cue.googlesource.com/cue/+/HEAD/doc/contribute.md#step-1_contributor-license-agreement https://cue.googlesource.com/cue/+/HEAD/doc/contribute.md#st...
- jsolson 7y agoThat's common to most projects released by Googlers. Options are either a getting the IP officially assigned over to yourself or releasing it under a Google copyright with a CLA: https://opensource.google.com/docs/creating/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/creating/ The latter is lower friction, in my opinion. This is especially common for "personal" projects that people end up working on or using on the clock. I don't know if this was the case with Cue specifically (this is the first I've heard of the project, but less boilerplate in my JSON has some appeal).
- magicalist 7y ago> that, to contribute, you have to turn over copyrights *grant a copyright license https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual