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by joshsimmons 2693 days ago
Hi there! I work in the Google Open Source Programs Office. Echoing what others have said, it's usually just a matter of an engineer or team deciding it's something they want to do. Other times, it's a strategic choice.

We open sourced our open source policies/docs a while back, so if you're so inclined you can dig deeper there. These two links will be of particular interest: https://opensource.google.com/docs/creating/ and https://opensource.google.com/docs/why/

2 comments

+1

I can speak a little bit about what motivated us.

We saw from OSS-Fuzz (https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz) that this sort of thing could be widely useful and wanted non-open source code to benefit from making fuzzing easier.

Thanks Josh! Love the meta-open sourcing.