Anant Narayanan wrote:
Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian
students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects.
Just curious to know, will the GSoC contributed code be GPLed and available to the public?
Rony wrote:
Anant Narayanan wrote:
Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian
students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects.
Just curious to know, will the GSoC contributed code be GPLed and available to the public?
From Google Summer of Code FAQs - http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60328&topic=10728 <quote>
What licenses do I have choose from?
That depends on your mentoring organization. All code created by student participants must be released under an Open Source Initiative approved license. It's also extremely likely that your mentoring organization will have a preferred license(s) and that you will need to release your code under the license(s) chosen by that organization. </quote>
Hi,
On 4/17/07, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Just curious to know, will the GSoC contributed code be GPLed and available to the public?
Of course yes, all code is contributed upstream directly. I mean, say for example - a candidate 's proposal is an KDE application or some such, he commits his code directly to the KDESVN. And since I speak for only KDE, if you check the proposals you will note that many of the proposals are feature additions to exisiting applications, so yes it goes into the application and ofcourse is GPLed or some free license.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
Hi,
On 4/17/07, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Just curious to know, will the GSoC contributed code be GPLed and available to the public?
Of course yes, all code is contributed upstreamdirectly. I mean, say for example - a candidate 's proposal is an KDE application or some such, he commits his code directly to the KDESVN. And since I speak for only KDE, if you check the proposals you will note that many of the proposals are feature additions to exisiting applications, so yes it goes into the application and ofcourse is GPLed or some free license.
Oh. I thought the code was being developed for Google. Then why is Google into this?
Hi,
On 4/17/07, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Oh. I thought the code was being developed for Google. Then why is Google into this?
Brownie points. And to show the world that they are not ``evil". Some people call it ``P.R" . Good thing that its often gets your new contributors into the community or just gets a few things done / added to a existing project - which is a good thing.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
On 4/17/07, Rony wrote:
Oh. I thought the code was being developed for Google. Then why is Google into this?
Brownie points. And to show the world that they are not``evil". Some people call it ``P.R" . Good thing that its often gets your new contributors into the community or just gets a few things done / added to a existing project - which is a good thing.
Hmmm.
Sometime on Apr 17, R cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Oh. I thought the code was being developed for Google. Then why is Google into this?
I don't work for Google, but in my opinion, and in my experience trying to hire good engineers, I'd say that this is the best way to find the right people without looking too hard.
On 17-Apr-07, at 11:44 PM, Rony wrote:
applications, so yes it goes into the application and ofcourse is GPLed or some free license.
Oh. I thought the code was being developed for Google. Then why is Google into this?
if you go throught the terms and conditions, you will see that google reserves the right to use mentor evaluations in its recruitment programs. It is well worth spending 5 million dollars to get a look at the 900 brightest students on the planet - and get them tested and evaluated in realtime. Google may also be interested in promoting foss - but that would attribute feelings to a corporate entity ... I did a mentor evaluation last year, and about a third of the questions were directly connected with evaluation of the student's suitability for employment at google
On 17-Apr-07, at 9:30 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
applications, so yes it goes into the application and ofcourse is GPLed or some free license.
making the code available under some osi recognised license is a pre- condition for payment
On 17-Apr-07, at 8:48 PM, Rony wrote:
Just curious to know, will the GSoC contributed code be GPLed and available to the public?
any osi recognised license. Why are you still under the impression that GPL is the only foss license available?
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