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by ec109685 2720 days ago
You think google is going to send a cease and desist letter to github based on someone’s work reverse engineering google’s App in Chrome?

And if they do that, nobody will have a copy of this source code?

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> You think google is going to send a cease and desist letter to github

Wouldn't be the first time, either: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-shuts-down-gaia-efforts...

TL;DR: They shut down an open source GEarth clone called Gaia a decade ago, although they managed to not to lose a lot of karma over that due to graceful handling.

Touché