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Google holds the copyright and they choose to license their IP under an open source license. You could be thinking of public domain.

• riku_iki 4y ago
  So, maintainers can just fork it under different name?
  • aflag 4y ago
    If the (ex-)maintainers work for google, they'd probably not do it. But, legally, they could.
  • joecool1029 4y ago
    Just call it fasterlane or betterlane lol
    • politelemon 4y ago
      Or as is the fashion currently, librelane
      • helf 4y ago
        Or autobahn
      • deleted 4y ago
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  • jsnell 4y ago
    The complaint is that Google isn't paying for anyone to work on this tool. Forking the project seems unlikely to change that.