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That’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.
by kgilpin 5y ago
That’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.