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by dmitshur 2542 days ago
It’s interesting for me to see a project made mostly by 1 person that happens to be employed by Google described as “by Google”. [1] Not that there’s no truth to it, just that the reality is much more nuanced than a simple phrase can capture.

[1] https://github.com/cuelang/cue/graphs/contributors
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gravypod 2542 days ago
It looks like Google owns the project and that, to contribute, you have to turn over copyrights [0]. I think the ownership makes it "by Google" more than employing the main dev.

[0] - https://cue.googlesource.com/cue/+/HEAD/doc/contribute.md#st...

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jsolson 2542 days ago
That's common to most projects released by Googlers. Options are either a getting the IP officially assigned over to yourself or releasing it under a Google copyright with a CLA: https://opensource.google.com/docs/creating/

The latter is lower friction, in my opinion.

This is especially common for "personal" projects that people end up working on or using on the clock.

I don't know if this was the case with Cue specifically (this is the first I've heard of the project, but less boilerplate in my JSON has some appeal).

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magicalist 2542 days ago
> that, to contribute, you have to turn over copyrights

*grant a copyright license

https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

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