alt Hacker News1. If google said ok but don't release under google’s name/in google’s repo, do that.
2. If google said no this goes against our goals for the product, don't release it if you want to keep working for google?
1. If google said ok but don't release under google’s name/in google’s repo, do that.
2. If google said no this goes against our goals for the product, don't release it if you want to keep working for google?
It was clearly greenlighted by management. The person who made the announcement was Addy Osmani, who was manager of the fired developer at the time.
This is in a Google-owned organization, with several other similar repositories, a lot of them using the same API.