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So Google owns the IP but doesn't support the maintainers that do all the work and keep it running. They take the credit, the value of the brand and do nothing.

Can't the maintainers do a fork, continue their work with a new name and then maybe start a foundation or something to attract money and support it? Fastlane is a very mission critical piece of software for many companies, I'm sure some of them would support it if it's an indie project and not a Google property.

Edit: there's actually a recent discussion about this and the idea of moving it to the Mobile Native Foundation. https://github.com/MobileNativeFoundation/discussions/discus...




It's an MIT license. Worrying about who "owns the IP" for an open source project when you could fork any time seems a little much.


MIT license doesn't transfer trademarks and patents.


I’m not familiar with open sourced code under MIT that is still protected by a patent. Can you share some examples of this?


Technically not under MIT, but x264 and x265 are being developed despite the underlying technologies under it have patents.


In practice it means that development work still happens, and, and prebuilt redist binaries still get made, but only in countries that don't recognize software patents.




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