[SM-Discuss] Fwd: Summer of Code 2008

Jeffrey 'jf' Lim jfs.world at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 01:47:57 EST 2008


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:21 AM,  <seth at swoolley.homeip.net> wrote:
> I'd prefer we not take Microsoft^WGoogle's money because I'm concerned
>  about strings attached.  Are you aware of any strings (such as
>  advertising or licensing) that might cause an issue?  If it's truly free
>  money, then that's another story, but I'm afraid if it's another case of
>  Google and Microsoft insidious subterfuge.
>
>  Has anybody done the necessary review of the conditions?
>

a brief "review" if i may (- http://code.google.com/soc/2008/tos.html for
the rest who want to go through it) - under "Additional"

<quote>
All code created by student participants must be released under an Open
Source Initiative approved license <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/>.
Additionally, all code must be published in a publicly accessible location.
The participant may mirror development on her/his personal infrastructure at
her/his option. Use of project hosting on Google Code service for *Google
Summer of Code* projects is subject to the Google Code Terms of
Service<http://code.google.com/tos.html>
.
</quote>

sounds good enough for me!!! NOTE: you only have to adhere to the "Google
Code TOS" if you host *on* the "Google Code service".

-jf


--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
   -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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