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

  • @aidanOP
    11•2 months ago

    Also apparently they are intending to re-add those who can be confirmed as unaffiliated with the Russian government.

    Do you have a source for this? Because that would be really good news.

    • @InverseParallaxEnglish
      15•2 months ago

      In the patch.

      Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.

      It was vague, but this seems the clear intent.

      • @aidanOP
        7•2 months ago

        But its not clear that the compliance requirements are about being government affiliated…