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Google Names Winners For Summer of Code 2011

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @02:02PM from the we-salute-those-about-to-goggle dept.

akgraner writes "Google has announced the accepted projects list for its 2011 Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Program. Ryan Rix emailed the Fedora announce mailing list to let users know Fedora was one of the projects that had been selected, while Daniel Holbach informed Ubuntu users via his blog that Ubuntu had not been selected."

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Gnome by MrEricSir · 2011-03-22 14:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

I see Gnome got accepted. Now maybe they can finally afford to add minimize and maximize to the Gnome 3 shell.

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Re:Why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-22 14:16 · Score: 1, Insightful

My guess would be Canonical's copyright assignment requirements for many of their projects. Copyright assignment != free software... or even open source software.
Re:Why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-22 14:34 · Score: 4, Insightful

Copyright assignment != free software
Which is why the Free Software Foundation does it?