Poll of the week: main OS and compiler

[David Nadlinger]

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