Qwen Code Ditched Google 10 Months Ago. Why Do 1,110 Files Still Say “Copyright Google”?

Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. I checked every one of them against every blob Google’s Gemini CLI has ever committed. The header is still literally true for 58. I was reading Qwen Code’s source last night for an unrelated reason — I wanted to see how it routes a tool call to a non-Qwen provider — and I opened a file about a memory connector. The first thing on the screen was a copyright notice. It said Google. The article tests whether Qwen Code’s ma

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