[dgrin91]

This is not uncommon for bigcorps. Could be many reasons for this, including licensing, competition, or fear of data leakage.

Bit surprising for this to come from Google though.

[jsnell]

Google's policies on this are public: https://opensource.google/docs/patching/

[heavyset_go]

This is unfortunate. An employer deciding what projects you can contribute to on your own time and with your own resources seems like an overstep to me.

[lostmsu]

This would make sense for larger infrastructural projects. But for a single feature extension to a command line shell?