+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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "grpc.io" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/8fbf1766-af43-43da-9eb7-01ca870dced9%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/8fbf1766-af43-43da-9eb7-01ca870dced9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > grpc.io" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAAgWDxKj-RxXy-9V139V5dpajtMHkcwcVXdZuqJnvW0zA6jMfQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAAgWDxKj-RxXy-9V139V5dpajtMHkcwcVXdZuqJnvW0zA6jMfQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CA%2BhxP0tf6D4ZRbE1RTkCxbjVp_niP3bw1Tv1aNcgJbdWAj3gYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
