I’m baffled as to why programmers put their trust in this advertising company to do the right thing, or why companies would stake their reputation on go. Several people tell me that Google handed over control to open source, but the main landing page for go, golang.com, the place were everyone needs to go to program in the language, says:

The Go website (the “Website”) is hosted by Google. By using and/or visiting the Website, you consent to be bound by Google’s general Terms of Service and Google’s general Privacy Policy.

Go the go privacy policy page, and you’re sent to Google’s own privacy policy page.
The copyright page, which a lot of folks point to, actually says:

Except as noted, the contents of this site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, and code is licensed under a BSD license.

… which means Google can exempt whatever it wants from the CC & BSD licenses. A good legal argument could be made about the BSD license for the code as the commas make things more open to interpretation. The term “code” could include HTML and other markup. But IANAL
Back to my main point, Google’s reputation is not good based on their behavior. I would not want to stake my company or my coding on them.
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