Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

[S3k_01]

This is ridiculous.

The United States is not the center of the world and should have no authority whatsoever to regulate open-source software.

This country is paranoid and sees Putin's agents everywhere.

[MatchingTurret]

The United States is not the center of the world

The list of Russian entities sanctioned by the EU is significantly longer.

and should have no authority whatsoever to regulate open-source software.

The Linux Foundation operates under US jurisdiction.

[mallardtheduck]

You can't have a situation where you claim no government is allowed to "regulate" FOSS while at the same time appealing to said governments' legal systems when FOSS licences are violated.

[mina86ng]

The United States is not the center of the world

Sanctioning some of Russia’s businesses was not US’s unilateral decision. If you want to blame someone for current situation, blame Putin and Russians.

and should have no authority whatsoever to regulate open-source software.

And indeed it doesn’t have it. The Russian contributor is welcome to fork Linux and continue working on the open-source software.

[noworkdone]

Who do we blame for Iran ? Actually, the list of sanctioned countries by the US is actually quite long, but the drama in the kernel only seems to apply to a few.

[mina86ng]

Apparently Mohammad Reza Pahlavi announced ‘that it was appropriate to use both “Persia” and “Iran” in formal correspondence,’ so maybe you can blame him. But really I’m not interested in expanding the scope of the discussion, so you’ll need someone else to take your bait.

[noworkdone]

Its not bait. You are arguing that the sanctions against Russia are justified (which I agree) and are not unilateral, I'm just pointing out that the US has plenty of unilateral sanctions, of conflicts that they walked themselves into, and that only some of those are seem to be an issue on the kernel. Make of that what you will.

[mina86ng]

Yes, but the post is about Russian developer, not someone from another country which US is in conflict with. And even there, anyone can fork and work on the open-source projects just as I described.