Dne pondělí 15. srpna 2022 17:47:46 CEST, doug demaio napsal(a):
Firstly, last week, the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned open source software Tornado Cash. Make no mistake, this was a sanctioning of a technology. Writing code is a freedom and we as an open-source community value the freedoms to use, share, study, modify and share code. I don’t believe any of us want this freedoms to be taken away.
Was it really sanction of *technology* and not it's *usage*? I don't know, but plans to make a gun on 3D printer could technically also be GPL-licensed OSS, but I can easily image its sanctioning... So where is the border?
GitHub removed the account of the code and removed its developers.
Dependency on private company is always risky, isn't it? ;-)
The third event was that Dutch authorities arrested the developer Alexey Pertsev. There is little information about his arrest, but it appears to be done to intimidate developers from expressing their freedom to develop free software.
This seems like strong interpretation. I might be missing something, but would You have any supporting info for this? -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/