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: "This agreement permits you to distribute unmodified or modified copies of openSUSE Leap 15.4 using the “openSUSE” trademark on the condition that you follow The openSUSE Project’s trademark guidelines located at http://en.opensuse.org/Legal. You must abide by these trademark guidelines when distributing openSUSE Leap 15.4, regardless of whether openSUSE Leap 15.4 has been modified." Short version - you can't reuse/redistribute openSUSE without complying with https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines which limits/controls the use of the openSUSE Trademarks "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.. There are many open source and free software licenses that restrict how the software can be used.. GPLv3 is a fine example It's harder for me to share sympathy or support for the cause of this thread when such fundemental errors are cited as quote. -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, D-90461 Nuremberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Directors/Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman