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Like any human endeavor, open source contains an implicit expectation that everyone is going to behave reasonably. You can disagree with the author’s arguments
by SpicyLemonZest 5y ago
Like any human endeavor, open source contains an implicit expectation that everyone is going to behave reasonably. You can disagree with the author’s arguments that this behavior is unreasonable, but it kinda misses the point to say that open source authors can do whatever they want and nobody has a right to judge them. When I’m a guest in someone’s house, they have every right to do what they want, but if they decide one day to bellow a war cry and start smashing their plates I’m probably not gonna visit again.
- kgilpin 5y agoThat’s right except in this case, Russia is the house and the open source author is you. They are taking their ball and going home.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoWell, again, the author is arguing (correctly in my view) that this is understandable but incompatible with the baseline expectations of the community. It’s a basic principle of open source that you won’t go out of your way to stop people from using your code, and a project which tries to prevent all Russian citizens from using it is straightforwardly not “open source” by the OSI definition.
- kgilpin 5y agoIt’s the copyright holder who gets to decide, not the OSI.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoI feel like you're just skipping over the meat of my comments to get in quick zingers and I'm not interested in engaging with that style of conversation any longer. Sorry.