[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