> They are trying to get us to program systems now in the Go language Basically everything on http://golang.org/ http://golang.org/ is licensed under either a

> They are trying to get us to program systems now in the Go language Basically everything on http://golang.org/ http://golang.org/ is licensed under either a CC Attrribution 3.0 license or a BSD license. Go was intentionally designed to be a specification and not just a single canonical implementation. True to that, there are two mainstream Go compilers, one of which (gcc-go) is licensed under the GPL v3. Aside from the fact that Google happens to employ some of the main developers of the language, I don't see how you can say that they 'own' it, since they've gone out of their way to make none of it proprietary.