On Wed, 05 Mar 2014, Pali Rohár wrote: > 2014-03-05 14:14 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Dandrimont <[email protected]>: > > * Pali Rohár <[email protected]> [2014-03-05 11:24:19 +0100]: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I already wrote that I'm interesting in project for archiving and > >> formatting emails from mailinglists. I asked confirmed mentor formorer > >> for this project [1] and he wrote me that he would happy to accept > >> this application. > >> > >> But there is one important thing about it. For my bachelor thesis I > >> have already started doing something similar/same. So I need to know > >> if I can to participate with this project [1] for GSoC 2014 and reuse > >> my bachelor project code or continue working on it for GSoC. In my > >> opinion according to this Google GSoC FAQ [2] it is allowed. But is it > >> OK for Debian as mentoring organization? Or are there any other > >> problems? > > > > As an org admin I have no problem with that, provided that the original > > software is free and published in some way, and that your modifications stay > > that way. All the more so if the project mentor already ACKed that the > > software > > would fit. Software reuse and adaptation is perfectly fine, all the more so > > in > > a distribution where doing just that is our "core" line of work. > > > > Obviously you'll have to go through the normal student application process > > and > > get ranked using the same criteria as other students would be, but you > > won't be > > forced to build everything from scratch, if your mentor says it's OK. And if > > the code is published free software, then any student is free to do the same > > and build their application upon that same base. > > > > (As an aside, having some software written already proves, to some extent, > > your > > worth as a GSoC student, and therefore can only help the mentor evaluate > > your > > application in a favorable light) > I understood project proposal [1] as not to extend any existing SW > (like mhonarc), but create new one, because there is no good one. My > bachelor project is not public yet (because it not working now and > hard to use), but there is no problem to make it free. So it is needed > to do some (non-working) code drop now (in the time of student > application period) of my project under free license and mark it as > original? Or it is enough to do that after I have something working? > Note that I do not expect working executable code before end of > student application period. No one expects working code til then. But I (as a mentor) expects code public when you/we start working on it. It would be unfair to force you to publish your code until the end of the application period, where are other students start from scratch.
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