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All commits to the Go repository must be approved by two Google employees: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/K7oGURi0wTM/m/3mg1O...



Yes. Again, Google can do whatever it likes with its repositories. This is entirely unrelated to whether or not the software is proprietary.

Compare Google's practices here to Qt's[1], CMake's[2], or any other large open source project that is primarily maintained by a single company.

To be abundantly clear: I don't think this is a good way to run an open source project, but it is a legitimate way to run one. So long as the source code and standards (insofar as they exist) are themselves permissive, then the community details are just that.

[1]: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contribution_Guidelines

[2]: https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rs...




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