I'm curious, @caniszczyk why would it need to become independant outside of Google? It's already an Apache licensed open-source project hosted on GitHub.

In essence, having diversity in ownership can help the project have a long life instead of being governed by one entity. There's a lot of risk that the main entity in charge will do things in its self interest instead of the self interest of the project (and its constituency) over the long term.

Independent ownership and proper governance will setup the project for long term success and as a small company, you should prefer it to be that way.