Comment by sundarurfriend
6 hours ago
That idea about keeping maintainer balance is pretty neat, interesting to see this kind of diligence in maintainership in the same project where legal ownership belongs to a single company, Google, via the Contributor License Agreement. My interest in jj cooled off a lot after seeing that, even though I realize in practice it's pretty unlikely to be of consequence - I just don't need even that kind of low probability Sword of Damocles hanging over my VCS, forks and drama in case Google decides to mess things up. (Good to see that the Readme has been changed to say it's not a Google-supported project btw, less misleading than the old claim that it's not a Google project at all.)
Legal ownership does not belong to a single company. All copyrights are still held by each individual contributor, and they're available to be used under the Apache 2 license.
The CLA means Google also has a license to the code to do what they will with it, but it does not do copyright assignment. They do not own your contributions.