"but I imagine the sentence you quote helps reduce confusion about who is sponsoring the project." Yes. I've updated the sentence a bit for future projects. B

"but I imagine the sentence you quote helps reduce confusion about who is sponsoring the project." Yes. I've updated the sentence a bit for future projects. But historically, what has happened, is that people make a lot of assumptions about code Google releases and what it means for X or Y. I've seen entire press stories about how Google has created some new product that does X or Y, when it's just some random googler's code. (This started even before it was in the google namespace on github, and it was just a random code.google.com project). It seems without some disclaimer, it is roughly impossible to get people to disassociate the two.