> FWIW, AMP is an open standard not solely owned or contributed to by Google. > ...

eitally · on April 17, 2019

I don't believe either of these statements is true: "ampproject.org is ... controlled by Google. The core AMP team are Google employees."

https://blog.amp.dev/2018/09/18/governance/

The TSC is independent and, at this point, the committee code commits are almost 4x the volume of Googler commits.

driverdan · on April 17, 2019

1. Do a whois on those domains and you'll see they're owned by Google.

2. The privacy policy on amp.dev is Google's.

3. Both sites are hosted by Google.

4. The license in the amphtml repo says copyright Google.

5. The OWNERS.yaml file in the amphtml repo list 3 people, all of whom work for google.

6. Per the contributing code readme, contributing code requires signing this Google CLA: https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

7. Looking at the last few merged PRs nearly everyone involved is a Google employee. I realize this could be a coincidence but I'm not going to analyze the whole repo.

8. The TSC is 3/7 Google employees.

Regardless, until Google issues a legally binding release of the project to an independent organization it is owned by Google. The TSC and AC could be removed at Google's whim.