<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MereInterest</author><text>How do they justify that belief?  If something is done outside of work hours, not using a work computer, then how would they have any claim over it whatsoever?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s contention has always been that there is no such thing as a personal project.  You can fill out a form to officially get permission to have a &amp;quot;personal project&amp;quot;, however, but I doubt many people want to deal with the bureaucracy.&lt;p&gt;You will notice 6 missing years in commits to my personal github.  That is why.  Every &amp;quot;personal project&amp;quot; I did ended up in the Google repository instead.</text></item><item><author>norrius</author><text>&amp;gt; WTFPL not allowed. We also do not allow contribution to projects under the WTFPL.&lt;p&gt;I am assuming this does not apply to personal projects, but then why would you contribute Google code to something that you cannot use anyway due to licensing issues?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some software cannot be used at Google</title><url>https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#banned</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derekp7</author><text>So if you do some volunteer work on a weekend for the web site for a non-profit (say a community center you&amp;#x27;re a member of).  Does that mean that Google doesn&amp;#x27;t allow that?  Does this clause cover any creative work (such as a unique desk that you designed for your home lab)?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s contention has always been that there is no such thing as a personal project.  You can fill out a form to officially get permission to have a &amp;quot;personal project&amp;quot;, however, but I doubt many people want to deal with the bureaucracy.&lt;p&gt;You will notice 6 missing years in commits to my personal github.  That is why.  Every &amp;quot;personal project&amp;quot; I did ended up in the Google repository instead.</text></item><item><author>norrius</author><text>&amp;gt; WTFPL not allowed. We also do not allow contribution to projects under the WTFPL.&lt;p&gt;I am assuming this does not apply to personal projects, but then why would you contribute Google code to something that you cannot use anyway due to licensing issues?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some software cannot be used at Google</title><url>https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#banned</url></story>