On 8/16/22 17:42, Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 08:00 +0000, doug demaio wrote:
People who write open-source software have no say over how it is used. There are many positive ways Tornado Cash was used, which you can hear about, but I'll just share one.
The license of the openSUSE Project says otherwise
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:License
The following clauses in the license used by all of our distributions actively restrict how openSUSE is used:
"You will not export or re-export openSUSE Leap 15.4 directly or indirectly, to: (1) any countries that are subject to US export restrictions; (2) any end user who you know or have reason to know will utilize openSUSE Leap 15.4 in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or rocket systems, space launch vehicles, and sounding rockets, or unmanned air vehicle systems, except as authorized by the relevant government agency by regulation or specific license; or (3) any end user who has been prohibited from participating in the US export transactions by any federal agency of the US government"
And this is why we don't have any contributors on build.opensuse.org from countries like Iran..they can't even make an account on our infra..
Thankyou for reminding me that the way export control is handled for open source projects has changed and that I need to remember to bug the board to speak to legal to get this part of the terms and conditions removed because its no longer required by US law (maybe after dinner i'll find the references to this but there have been changes in the last year or so in this area). On the other hand the other parts you pointed to related to trademarks are definitely still valid. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B