> 1) The OpenBSD Foundation is NOT OpenBSD. > > 2) That application never elicited a reply from Google, so no > contract to read or sign was presented or known of. > > 3) At some later point the required contract was obtained and, as Theo > has said, nobody in the OpenBSD project or at the OpenBSD Foundation > was interested in signing it after reading it. >
In a nutshell, I'm the guy who is willing to take on some personal responsibility in order to have this happen. However when the contract is put in front of me and I (as a non USA person) ask questions about it, basically the people at Google stop answering. I don't personally blame them, they are techies, they are trying to do the right thing. However they don't end up in a position where they are able to talk to anyone at the company about the pitfalls of someone foreign signing something with USA tax consequences. Heck as the "supervisor" they want to give me money - an Hororarium. I don't *want* the money because it causes me problems personally to accept it from them (and when signing something as a director of a Canadian not for profit I actually can't legally take it!) and while they seem able to say they will not give me the money, they can't remove all the parts of the contract about me taking the money that give me problems. I would just like to get the interested student the money. However it has always bogged down around issues like this. Unfortunately this all gets turned into "we don't want to participate in SOC". this isn't true for all of us. I would be willing to try, and have. it just has not been workable for an entity that does not have a legal presence in the United States. I'm always willing to try again if this message is read by someone at Google who can untangle the bureaucracy...
