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i can still remember that the Linux community blocked Russians from maintaining the Linux kernel i guess they were "protect"ing their users :) Additionally,

• dismalaf 1y ago
  > Additionally, I have always been curious to know whether the U.S. export ban applies to Linux and any other open source projects It does, the Linux kernel maintainers eventually said that's the reason for banning Russian maintainers.
  • aleph_minus_one 1y ago
    > It does, the Linux kernel maintainers eventually said that's the reason for banning Russian maintainers. As craftkiller interline in a sibling post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927430): would this not rather imply that you should ban US-American maintainers (at least on some subsystems)? If Russian maintainers write some Linux kernel code, this will cause no problem for a US export ban. On the other hand, if US-American maintainer does, it might.
    • comex 1y ago
      According to Linus, “the ‘various compliance requirements’ are not just a US thing”: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEg... I do not know the details myself.
  • SahAssar 1y ago
    How does that even work? By definition the code is "exported" to every country since it is open source. It could be argued that you could ban imports from russia by not allowing them to contribute code, but an export ban is basically impossible.
    • dismalaf 1y ago
      You can't control where the code goes but you can sanction organizations for working with sanctioned orgs/individuals.
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      • dragonelite 1y ago
        Given that US big tech funds a lot of orgs they will always have a big stake. One could for example filibuster certain Chinese or Russian features/proposals etc for a long time. Or at the last minute vote to do a 180% on a design proposals so US Rival have to redo an implementation. Standard office politics shit.
• simion314 1y ago
  It seems they were following the sanctions, plenty of Russians that are not Zed patriots that left Ruzzia and they can freely work.
• craftkiller 1y ago
  The OpenBSD project at least believes that the US restrictions on the export of cryptography would have impacted them. Its why they banned US developers working on cryptography long ago. > Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems. If any non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is interested in helping out with embedded cryptography in OpenBSD, please contact us. https://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html https://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html