Thank you for the clarification. I highly recommend sorting out ownership/stewardship details as they appear on the website and the GitHub repository. There is no designation anywhere I would expect to see it that this now belongs to/is operated by the CNCF. At bare minimum, I should've ideally been able to find this information in the FAQ or About pages, if not in the copyright notices on either the website or GitHub. -Jacob Weisz
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 6:51 PM, April Kyle Nassi <[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 "gRPC >> Remote Procedure Calls, 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" 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. >> 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/CAL%3DCSK1gm6fV4s1bOTnd8OHx2FjDv3rLnY7DKV%2BshRJBzqHAJA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
