I am reading "you" as addressed to Google, not to the intern. The project is owned by Google, copyright is held by Google, the GitHub organization is for Google, etc.
Sure, the intern is not personally morally culpable, but they were told what project to work on by a manager, no? And any open-source release was approved by a fairly sizable Google committee that is deeply aware of what open-source projects Google depends on and which ones they choose to support, isn't it?
If this were on the intern's personal GitHub account on their own time (and Google were so kind as to allow the intern to do work on their own time and retain copyright), this would be a totally different matter, yes.
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I am reading "you" as addressed to Google, not to the intern. The project is owned by Google, copyright is held by Google, the GitHub organization is for Google, etc.
Sure, the intern is not personally morally culpable, but they were told what project to work on by a manager, no? And any open-source release was approved by a fairly sizable Google committee that is deeply aware of what open-source projects Google depends on and which ones they choose to support, isn't it?
If this were on the intern's personal GitHub account on their own time (and Google were so kind as to allow the intern to do work on their own time and retain copyright), this would be a totally different matter, yes.