The title really undersells it, it seems like under a Biden Executive Order, free/open-source software will have to ban all Russian contributions. Its unclear if American developers would be allowed to contribute to Russian software like Nginx
The title really undersells it, it seems like under a Biden Executive Order, free/open-source software will have to ban all Russian contributions. Its unclear if American developers would be allowed to contribute to Russian software like Nginx
That seems weird considering anyone can easily access and fork it if they want.
Reminds me of the old crypto algorithm export laws which fell apart for the same reason. Now curve25519 is even in FIPS as the default next to the NIST curve.