I recently joined Google and have a general purpose Apache-licensed Java library which I submitted and was rejected for overlap. This seemed fair since they als

I recently joined Google and have a general purpose Apache-licensed Java library which I submitted and was rejected for overlap. This seemed fair since they also have similar projects (e.g. Guava) even though I don't work on them (or even write Java there). I can still contribute to the project and will be able to use that code forever since it is also Apache, I just won't hold copyright and therefore wouldn't be able to relicense it without their permission, but that's not a concern of mine so I've been happily hacking away on it. I also submitted a new side project, which obtained copyright release quickly (couple days) and without any additional qualifications, which was nice as I could then proceed freely with it. Overall I'm pretty happy with the process and thought it and the rules around it were fair.