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.
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...