Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

From: Andrey Dobrovolsky <andrey.dobrovolsky.odessa_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:39:57 +0300

пт, 25 жовт. 2024 р. о 21:40 Страхиња Радић <sr_AT_strahinja.org> пише:
>
> Дана 24/10/25 04:40PM, Andrey Dobrovolsky написа:
> > Soon 14701 act by US government will be applied to all GPL licensed
> > software.
>
> Any references to whatever that is? Web search doesn't seem to return
> anything relevant here.
>
Hi Страхиња Радић,

First of all I need to apologize for mentioning the wrong number
(sorry!), the right is Executive Order 14071 (oops) and describes
sanctions against Russian Federation. The use case was banning of 11
developers from RF from Linux Kernel maintainers list. Linux is
developed under GPL 2.0 and here we can observe the case of applying
the restrictions not mentioned in the license itself. GPL itself looks
like acknowledged and running under US jurisdictions, and the fact
raise concerns that any GPL-licensed software may one fine day be
affected in some way with this or another politically-driven
restrictions.

Regards!
--jazzbiker
Received on Fri Oct 25 2024 - 20:39:57 CEST