On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 19:13:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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:
>> 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.
Sorry, seems like I didn't make myself clear – I meant that
from my point of view, it would be strange to have a GSoC student
work on the backend, which isn't Open Source. It could also be a
problem from a formal point of view because Google IIRC requires
the code to be released under an OSI-approved license, but I'm
not sure about that.
David
