Q&A: Chris DiBona, a programs manager for Google, talks about how the company uses open-source software and what it contributes to the open-source community.

Chris DiBona, open-source programs manager at Google, gave a talk called "A Year of Open Source at Google" for the Google New York speaker series. Prior to his talk, which was closed to press, DiBona spoke on May 16 with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about a series of issues such as Microsoft's recent saber rattling over patents, Google's open-source development contributions and what GPLv3 means for Google.

What will you be talking about tonight?

I'm giving a modified form of one of my regular talks… about how Google uses open source, how we keep an eye on it internally, as well as what we do externally in terms of things like the Summer of Code, [and] code release—we release a great amount of code into open source. So I go around and try to talk about that.

Can you talk about the open-source components that are used in software development at Google?

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