[callmekatootie]

I am also confused with that statement because the files appear to have Google Copyright in them. Example https://github.com/google/bottery/blob/master/js/bots.js

So its not official Google Product yet has Google Copyright. Not sure how that works.

[detaro]

Google doesn't support it in any way (=not a product), it's just something the author made during her time at Google internally (=it has Google copyright) that's now open-sourced.

https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/925159463807361024

[breakingcups]

A Googler once told me that any code he writes during his employment with Google belongs to Google copyright-wise.

If they want to open source anything they have to ask Google for permission. It doesn't have to be hosted under the Google GitHub organization though (take Camlistore[1] as an example, although their primary repository is still hosted at googlesource.com).

This also means that if you want to contribute code to an open source project started by a Googler you will have to sign the Google CLA.

1: https://camlistore.org/

[maxton]

I don't think that's true for every project, as I have contributed to an open-source project[1] started by a Googler, and never had to sign a CLA, nor is the project hosted under the Google Github org.

1: https://github.com/benvanik/xenia

[cflewis]

See my reply above.

TL;DR: Google's employment agreement means Google owns the copyright, which is what you see here. That doesn't mean we are endorsing the repo or making any claims to its importance.

[teamhappy]

> Not sure how that works.

I guess she wrote it at work.