> This is not an official Google product, it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.
Which generally means that the original author worked at Google when they wrote this code & "chose" to let Google own the copyright of this project rather than fill out more paperwork.
It doesn't imply the project was funded by Google--just that the author was a Google employee at some point.
That disclaimer appears at the bottom of every project that Google doesn't feel like officially supporting. Even the tcmalloc project has that disclaimer at the bottom and it's used in every single process running in Google datacenters right now. I think you'd be hard pressed to really make the case that WUFFS is not funded by Google.
> That disclaimer appears at the bottom of every project that Google doesn't feel like officially supporting.
Based on my understanding from conversations with Google staff, it's a disclaimer that's required if anyone at Google wants to write "personal" code & release it (under an Open Source license) while employed by Google.
(Unless they choose to undertake a much more paperwork-intensive alternate process with different requirements & implications.)
Personal code is different to code developed for reasons that were directed by Google (which they have no problem saying is unsupported, e.g. any version of Android older than 3 minutes or something :D )--which is why this disclaimer can be seen on such odd non-corporate things as retro-computing related projects.
Of course, sometimes such projects do become something Google wants to use (maybe WUFFS falls into this category)--so I expect we'll see more retro computing support on Stadia any day now... :D
