It’s interesting for me to see a project made mostly by 1 person that happens to be employed by Google described as “by Google”. [1] Not that there’s no truth to it, just that the reality is much more nuanced than a simple phrase can capture.
[0] - https://cue.googlesource.com/cue/+/HEAD/doc/contribute.md#st...
The latter is lower friction, in my opinion.
This is especially common for "personal" projects that people end up working on or using on the clock.
I don't know if this was the case with Cue specifically (this is the first I've heard of the project, but less boilerplate in my JSON has some appeal).
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