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Comment by Ajedi32 | Hacker News Reader

There's some really interesting tidbits in the docs section.

For example, apparently AGPL licensed projects can't be used at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/

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That is not one bit surprising considering that Google does everything online.

Google no doubt has some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary. Also they probably have code under other licenses that they would like to remain under those particular licenses.

Errr,it's completely and totally unrelated to that. It's because we have tons of temps, vendors, and contractors, and don't want to have to owe them source code to internal systems. The other alternative (remember that google is a monorepo) would be to somehow police them differently. That is literally not worth the cost.

I don't see how having "some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary" is "completely and totally unrelated to" "not want[ing] to have to owe [someone/anyone] source code to internal systems"?

What's going on with the names of you all?

No idea. DannyB2 has been around about a year, and i've seen posts by them in other threads.

The others were just created, presumably to be reddit-level-hilarious

The implication of the above comment is explicitly that it's because of stuff we make available in public (IE google docs), and we actually literally do not care about that at all.

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