> they didn't say that Theo refused to sign any paper. Just wonder, what kind > of responsibilty that paper was about ? Accepting student's code to OpenBSD > code base or something ?
No, it's actually about personal liability for the mentor (i.e. me) for taxes and other such nonsense. Google SOC actually does *not* require that the code be accepted into the project at the end. Fundamentally, I have no objections to the principle of summer of code, it's the byzantine paperwork and scary contract I have to sign as a mentor to do this for you. I'm more than willing to hang my personal ass out there a little bit for this, working at a university I can sort of "blah blah blah" a lot of the legal crap when it comes to students, but I do have my limits.. sorry... and as soon as I delete objectionable bits in the contract, the dialogue with the Googlers stops, I suspect because they can't get any traction with their internal legal people.
