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It’s not unconstitutional for a company to think that they need (or want) to do something in response to a sanction. GitHub is not in the business of being leg
by atian 4y ago
It’s not unconstitutional for a company to think that they need (or want) to do something in response to a sanction.
GitHub is not in the business of being legally innovative.
- Ajedi32 4y agoIt's not unconstitutional for GitHub to remove the code, it's unconstitutional for the government to force GitHub to remove the code via a sanction.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> it's illegal for the government to force GitHub to remove the code via their sanction Yes. This isn't what happened. The code isn't sanctioned, the organization is. And these people were affiliated with the organization.
- Ajedi32 4y agoSo if I go and upload my fork of that code to GitHub it won't be removed?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> if I go and upload my fork of that code to GitHub it won't be removed? Nobody can say what GitHub would do. But they’d unlikely be under legal jeopardy from hosting it. (They may not want to bother with monitoring whether you continue to develop it or not, however.)
- Ajedi32 4y agoWhy would they care whether I continue to develop it or not? I thought the code wasn't sanctioned.
- jasonlotito 4y agoThey do not. As I understand it, you are free to develop it. GitHub can't stop you from doing that. I'm not sure of your point here.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Why would they care whether I continue to develop it or not? If you continue developing it academically, that’s fine. If you’re developing it to deploy it, that could be problematic. Most people don’t want to deal with customers where they have to monitor that distinction. (Those folks can always just host the code themselves.)