"Let's end with a hypothetical: in late 2023, China announces a CPU built on the open source RISC-V architecture that outperforms anything else on the planet, p

"Let's end with a hypothetical: in late 2023, China announces a CPU built on the open source RISC-V architecture that outperforms anything else on the planet, plus its own version of Linux designed just for the silicon. Xi Jinping proclaims that this chip has already allowed it to accelerate its development of AI to exceed the nation's 2030 goals, in applications such as missiles capable of evading all known air defenses, which he proves by sending three of the missiles over Taiwan at low altitude. What do the open source community and governments do then?" The thing is: what makes you think Xi cares about you or your license? At the end of the day it's just a few bytes in a file. The only serious way to prevent Xi from using RISC-V, Linux, and other open source tools for his Taiwan-destroying missiles is to not have it available at all. I don't see any other way to prevent them from ending up in China one way or the other; once it's "out there", it's out there. You can maybe prevent ICE or the US military from using your open source project if you feel strongly that they shouldn't, but that's about as far as you can go.