On Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:20:03 Bernard Helyer wrote: > On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 09:25:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Thursday, March 08, 2012 09:45:34 David Nadlinger wrote: > >> On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 11:44:54 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: > >> > Walter, how big is it really? Small enough to be done as, > >> > say, > >> > a gsoc > >> > project? Would you be interested in mentoring such a > >> > project? > >> > >> I don't know whether it would really be a problem from a legal > >> (Google) point of view, but having a GSoC student work on > >> non-Open Source software seems strange at least. > > > > I though that GSoC had a list of licenses which were acceptable > > for GSoC > > projects - all of which are open source license of one variety > > or another. > > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > That's his point; the backend isn't open source.
?? David doesn't seem to making that point. He's saying that it would be "strange," not that it would be against the rules. - Jonathan M Davis