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One the SoC project page for Ruby it states that the prefered license for
these projects was GPL. What is the reason for this, was it required by
Google?

I would have expected the prefered license to be the Ruby license, or MIT,
or BSD, or some such.

Curt

On 5/24/06, dblack / wobblini.net <dblack / wobblini.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone --
>
> On behalf of Ruby Central, the mentoring organization, I am very
> pleased indeed to announce the students who have been
> awarded grants through the Google Summer of Code program for 2006.
>
> First, I'd like to express our deep thanks to all the students who
> applied, and to all the mentor volunteers.  Everyone put in a lot of
> time on preparing and/or ranking applications, and the pool of
> applications as well as the roster of mentors was impressive.  I hope
> that those of you who did not receive funding this year will
> nonetheless come back next year and apply.
>
> The students who have been awarded grants by Google, along with their
> project titles and names of their mentors, are:
>
> Alexander Stephen Bradbury: Automated Wrapper Generation
>                             for Information Extraction
> Mentor: Austin Ziegler
>
> Gregory Brown: Ruby Reports
> Mentor: David Pollak
>
> Kevin Clark:  mkmf for Rake
> Mentor: Caleb Tennis
>
> Robert Figueiredo: A Ruby Rule-based toolkit
> Mentor: Kirk Haines
>
> Benjamin Gorlick: Improved style and extendable interactive
> documentation system for Ruby and Rails
> Mentor: James Edward Gray II
>
> Florian Gross: ruby-breakpoint GUI client
> Mentor: Patrick Hurley
>
> Ilmari Heikkinen: Pure-Ruby OpenGL GUI widget systemMentor: Ryan
> Leavengood
>
> Jeffrey Hughes: Port Ruby to Symbian OSMentor: Dibya Prakash
>
> Jason Morrison: Code Completion with Type Inference
> for Ruby Development Tools project
> Mentor: Christopher Williams
>
> Gabriele Renzi: New Administration subsystem for nitro
> Mentor: Bryan Soto
>
> --
> David A. Black (dblack / wobblini.net)
> * Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypowerandlight.com)
>   > Ruby and Rails consultancy and training
> * Author of "Ruby for Rails" from Manning Publications!
>   > http://www.manning.com/black
>
>

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