http://www.osnews.com/story/19669/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:30:54 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?310933 http://osnews.com/thread?310933 I'm interested. Are there safeguards to ensure that the sources/modifications made by GSOC students are released to the comunity, or will these be only released to Enterprise customers? Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?310934 http://osnews.com/thread?310934 According to Google SoC FAQ, code produced by students must be released under an OSI approved license.

http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_owns_code

So I expect the community will get the code produced for MySQL. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (leavengood) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?310936 http://osnews.com/thread?310936 While scanning the projects, I ran across this tongue-in-cheek bug report.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10000

I am looking forward to improvements in LLVM. Until it's clang front-end is feature-complete we won't know if it will be a serious competitor to Intel, MSVC and GCC or just hyped up vaporware. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sakeniwefu) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?310941 http://osnews.com/thread?310941 I hope so, although, I believe that the mysql enterprise-only code is GPL, but I might be wrong about that. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?310942 http://osnews.com/thread?310942 I can't believe that it was closed. Some people have no sense of humour. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?310943 http://osnews.com/thread?310943 It's actually a pretty common type bug that many products share:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Oh, I just noticed this is referenced in the Wine bug - go figure - my bad Edited 2008-04-22 23:36 UTC Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?310956 http://osnews.com/thread?310956 ...it's summer already! Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments