At a recent press conference, Sarah Novotny, head of open source strategy at Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Melody Meckfessel, VP of engineering for GCP shared some interesting insight into how Google decides when to release software under an open source license.
Key points:
- Google has released more than 2,400 open source projects, however the major projects are the ones that give them good open source credentials.
- Google uses a very organic process to release code as open source that starts with engineers pushing to release things that didn’t appeal to product or leadership teams.
- They think the shift to corporate-sponsored open source development will open up more opportunities for less privileged developers.
