The current (and pretty much only, ever, despite Linus having been the creator) maintainer of git is a google employee [1], in case anyone else was wondering.
It's interesting how the first ever git project itself was looking for new maintainer almost as soon as it was created.
As an open-source advocate, my first thought was, "Why the hell is Google releasing a version of a protocol that Linus Torvalds wrote?"
Without that context, it would be like Google throwing up an announcement, "Introducing Google's Linux Kernel 5.0!"
The result is the main RPM everyone uses will probably stay at version 4.x forever.
[0]: http://rpm5.org/
"Initially, nobody registered it, but on August 15, 1994, [...] filed for the trademark Linux, and then demanded royalties from Linux distributors. In 1996, Torvalds and some affected organizations sued him to have the trademark assigned to Torvalds, and, in 1997, the case was settled." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Copyright,_trademark_and...
See the list of URLs at https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqindt6g1r.fsf@gitster.mtv.co...
But we aren't yet including projects where we are just heavy contributors, but they're not "Google projects". That includes Linux, git, LLVM, and a host of others. We do want to recognize them in our project directory, but want to make sure that they are distinguished from Google projects so that we're not implying something that is accurate.