It is complex, and none of us have the background to make this determination without knowing the full background of the case. However, the standard I learned he

It is complex, and none of us have the background to make this determination without knowing the full background of the case. However, the standard I learned here was pretty low. In my law class, the example of where apparent authority would apply was an employee wearing a UPS company uniform communicating something. An example of where it would not apply was a UPS employee selling obviously-stolen merchandise out of the back of a truck, claiming to do it on behalf of UPS. Given that this was: (a) In an official github repo from the organization (b) The announcement was made by the co-founder and CTO It would need to be a complex set of circumstance for apparent authority to NOT apply. I can come up with such circumstances which might apply, but it would have to be a lot more than just saying they didn't authorize their CTO to do this. If you can't take the statements of a CTO at face-value, the world of business would collapse. (And to re-emphasize: I am not a lawyer. "In my law class" should not convey I went to law school, and taking a couple of law classes does not a lawyer make).