Much as we might want to shut off the Russians, I don't think this is something that the GPL type licenses allow... This has come up time and time again in regards to limiting access to all sorts of other undesirables, and the bottom line is that as long as they are complying w/ the licenses (i.e. copylefting changes, etc.) they can't be cut off...
An ironic / amusing question I remember being raised a while back: Is the question about if Free Software is used in a 'smart' weapon, (smart bomb guidance system, drone, etc.); and an intact device falls into the hands of the enemy, does that count as 'distribution' and entitle the enemy to demand the corresponding source code? ART ================ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:04:30 +0000 From: Jacob Hrbek <krey...@rixotstudio.cz> To: Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> Subject: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Message-ID: <25b59d57-597d-4ef4-9e93-2c067a1d8...@rixotstudio.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Today russian forces invaded ukraine and started an unprovoked war with free software being used across russia and in the government thus playing a major role in russia's war capabilities. Should we and can we take steps to prevent/reduce russia's access to our software? ------------------ Arthur Torrey - <arthur_tor...@comcast.net> ------------------- _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss