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HarfBuzz is maintained by Behdad Eafahbod who _used_ to work in Google and Facebook.

Doesn't matter who maintains it. It matters who owns copyrights.

That doesn't matter, since it's FLOSS with an irrevocable licence. That's the great thing about free software.

That wasn't the point. Yes, you're free to use it. But many of us would like not to depend on Google code.