Re: Kawa GSoC

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hallo!

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:45:22 -0800, Per Bothner <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm considering submitting Kawa to GSoC.
> Kawa web-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
> Ideas page: http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Ideas-and-tasks.html
> 
> I'm trying to evaluate whether to submit Kawa as its own
> (very small) "mentoring organization"

Assuming that nothing fundamental changed on the Google side, this is
unlikely to be accepted:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/2010-03/msg00013.html>

> or go via GNU.  For
> various reasons going via GNU seems to make sense.  However, I have
> one concern: The 2010 guideline say students must:
> 
> 4. Make a copyright assignment or disclaimer to the Free Software 
> Foundation. Your mentor will send you the necessary forms.
> 5. Obtain a copyright disclaimer from your school, if necessary.
> 
> This is not appropriate for Kawa, which does not require
> copyright assignments or disclaimers, and which in any case is
> not copyrighted by the FSF.  The FSF does not require either of
> GNU projects, at least in the past, when Kawa became a GNU project.
> 
> Would it be possible to change the text, perhaps to something like:
> 4. Most projects require you to make a copyright assignment or 
> disclaimer to the Free Software Foundation, in which case your mentor 
> will send you the necessary forms.

I cannot ``officially'' comment / speak for the GNU project on that, but
I think this should be possible.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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