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What the hell does that even mean for open source? Need an export license to run a frigging GitHub project if it has anything to do with RISC-V at all? Does a c
by oefrha 3y ago
What the hell does that even mean for open source? Need an export license to run a frigging GitHub project if it has anything to do with RISC-V at all? Does a compiler with a RISC-V target count? Projects with RISC-V builds?
- numpad0 3y agoYes to all, technically. It won't matter usually, but technically. Weapons export controls are getting absurd that buying Chinese to get around is totally an option now. Like, seen those silver tablet thing for screening COVID in visitors? They are ALL designed and built by Chinese companies using really good and completely unlocked Chinese thermal cameras, because, access to Western versions of such high technology could "pose threat" to the Western world and is therefore severely restricted. And they ALL record every faces it's seen, which are often not GUI discoverable nor exportable but extractable by sshing into, because of course they do and they are. And that is what export control schemes are doing.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoIf you set aside the absurdity of applying it to RISC-V for a second, yes, that is exactly what export control means. Any such regulated technology can't be exported (for a very well defined and strict definition of "exported"). Posting it on GitHub definitely counts as an export controls violation.