[ESS] why a release from time to time would be nice

[Toby Hocking]

Hi Rodney,
Just a point of clarification, it is completely OK for R-GSOC students to
write non-R code, and that happens every year (most common other languages
are probably FORTRAN/C/C++ and JavaScript but ESS/elisp should be fine
too). See non-R languages column in last year's coding projects table,
https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki/table%20of%20proposed%20coding%20projects
Also for the vast majority of other GSOC projects (all of them in my
experience) there is no problem with copyright. I'm not a copyright expert,
but maybe that is because the students are not being paid by their
universities to participate in GSOC? (google pays them a stipend, with the
purpose of encouraging them to contribute to free/open source software).
Toby

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 8:38 AM Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help <
ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:

> Hi Toby:
>
> Well that is very generous.  But ESS is not written in R.
> So I don’t think this would work.  Also getting another
> person to file FSF paper work can be painful.  For
> example, the student’s employer is likely a university
> who would own their code.  Typically you have to
> get them to give your copyright back which is not
> always easily accomplished.  Thanks
>
> --
> Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
> Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics
> Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
> Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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