Hi Rodney, Just a point of clarification, it is completely OK for R-GSOC students to write non-R code, and that happens every year (most common other languages are probably FORTRAN/C/C++ and JavaScript but ESS/elisp should be fine too). See non-R languages column in last year's coding projects table, https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki/table%20of%20proposed%20coding%20projects Also for the vast majority of other GSOC projects (all of them in my experience) there is no problem with copyright. I'm not a copyright expert, but maybe that is because the students are not being paid by their universities to participate in GSOC? (google pays them a stipend, with the purpose of encouraging them to contribute to free/open source software). Toby
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 8:38 AM Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help < ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi Toby: > > Well that is very generous. But ESS is not written in R. > So I don’t think this would work. Also getting another > person to file FSF paper work can be painful. For > example, the student’s employer is likely a university > who would own their code. Typically you have to > get them to give your copyright back which is not > always easily accomplished. Thanks > > -- > Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics > Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics > Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics > Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help