+1 April.

While gRPC was a Google-born project, today it's an open source community
project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella. You
may find it listed on the CNCF website <https://www.cncf.io/projects/>,
together with other projects.

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 7:52 PM 'April Kyle Nassi' via grpc.io <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there! Google did found the gRPC project, and then donated it to the
> Cloud Native Computing Foundation for stewardship. It is an open source
> project, and contributions are welcome under the CNCF's CLA.
>
> As the CNCF donation was relatively recent there are still a few things
> under the Google name, such as the domain - we are in the process of
> transferring those over to CNCF. I'll go through all our repos and make
> sure it's reflected there as well!
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017, 2:27 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's kinda incredible how I ended up on the gRPC site, was reasonably
>> confident it was owned by Google, and yet Google has apparently gone out of
>> it's way to hide Google's ownership of it.
>>
>> https://grpc.io/ fails to openly indicate it is owned by Google anywhere
>> obvious, the usual lines for terms and policy at the bottom of Google sites
>> is missing.
>> - It is "©2017 gRPC" which is not a real entity as far as I can tell..
>> - https://grpc.io/about/ intentionally avoids listing the company that
>> made it (Google) as one of the eight companies using it.
>> - Google finally appears in "The story behind gRPC" at the bottom.
>> - The FAQ, presumably trying to be cute, suggests it stands for "*g*RPC
>> *R*emote *P*rocedure *C*alls, of course!"
>> - Any attempt to pretend this isn't actually a Google property remains
>> incredibly dishonest when you bother to whois it:
>>
>> Registrant Organization: Google Inc.
>>
>>
>> Then the GitHub repository has it's own crime, suggesting that it's
>> "Copyright 2015 The gRPC Authors"
>> <https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/AUTHORS> and links to its
>> authors which seems all fine and dandy until you click it, and Google
>> finally admits the sole "author" is Google Inc. here:
>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/AUTHORS
>>
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