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.
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.
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...