Re: [Fsf-friends] US politics to FOSS!!

• Who's not eligible to participate as a student in Google Summer of Code?

Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or citizens of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to participate. Mentoring organizations that are taking part in *Google Summer

Sounds fine to me. SoC involves making payments to participating students and should be under US taxation law. If US law prohibits any commercial activities with these states, then Google can debar citizens of mentioned states from participating. Pay any amount to a person in lie of work is a commercial activity.

I don't see politics here.

regards VK