Poll of the week: main OS and compiler

[Jonathan M Davis]

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