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(this post obviously assumes the recent removal of russian devs due to sanctions is bad; no need to comment if you disagree)

a lot of people i know are considering jumping ship to some bsd after the recent MAINTAINERS debacle, but i'm skeptical it would make any difference. afaik, they're just as us-centric as linux if not more (it's the berkeley software distribution, after all). also, my biggest gripe about the bsds and the main reason i've never had any interest in them is their permissive licensing. permissive licenses suck

would there be any difference wrt sanctions in the bsds or moving away from linux to *bsd bc of that would be pointless?

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Russians can still contribute, they just can't be direct maintainers.

Nothing will likely change in the short term.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They can be maintainers if they can document that they are volunteers and do not work for any state sponsored entity. I don't know haw easy that will be in practice.

https://news.itsfoss.com/russian-linux-maintainers-geopolitics/

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know that, but makes sense.

if you are from Russia, it is impossible to convince the US that you are not a part of a state-sponsored entity

This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

It nails a different problem on the head.

You don't have to convince the US government to allow you access to classified information, you just have to convince a lawyer that their (possibly non-US) client won't be liable in case you are lying.