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by sethd 1214 days ago
Google holds the copyright and they choose to license their IP under an open source license. You could be thinking of public domain.
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riku_iki 1214 days ago
So, maintainers can just fork it under different name?
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aflag 1214 days ago
If the (ex-)maintainers work for google, they'd probably not do it. But, legally, they could.
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jsnell 1214 days ago
The complaint is that Google isn't paying for anyone to work on this tool. Forking the project seems unlikely to change that.
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joecool1029 1214 days ago
Just call it fasterlane or betterlane lol
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politelemon 1214 days ago
Or as is the fashion currently, librelane
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helf 1214 days ago
Or autobahn
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