On 8/17/22 09:08, doug demaio wrote:
Richard Brown wrote:
The only question this incident raises for me is a casual pondering as to whether we will need to treat cryptocurrency tools in a similar way to “hacking” tools, patented codecs, and libdvdcss and keep them out of openSUSE to avoid legal entanglements.
This is a discussion that needs or should happen. Guess I'll start. If I'm running a bitcoin node via flatpak on a Tumbleweed machine and it's processing the less than 1% criminal activity [1] on the bitcoin network, is their a problem? Should we now start to consider having tools that prevent certain flatpaks from being used on our distros?
[1] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-report-introduction/
The question is not whether we should have tools to prevent a certain software to run on openSUSE. That's out of question. We don't have tools to prevent the execution of hacking tools, patented codecs or libdbdcss. We simply don't distribute those. So the question is whether we should distribute a given software (cryptocurrency tools in this case) as part of our distributions. Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Software Solutions