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callmeed on Dec 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

I met a Twitter engineer at startup school who said any side projects had to be approved by Twitter's legal team. Was this the case with Bootstrap?

Also, was it put on Twitter's GitHub account in order to increase visibility?

fat on Dec 11, 2012 | [–]

yep, lots of legal hurdles to go through – took us like 6 months – but now they have a full time opensource shepherd @cra which makes this much smoother

caniszczyk on Dec 11, 2012 | | [–]

<3, thanks for the kudos

codewright on Dec 11, 2012 | [–]

>any side projects had to be approved by Twitter's legal team

Welp, they're out of the running for any future work now.

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