This Is Pretty Alarmist
This Is Pretty Alarmist
Posted Feb 6, 2025 10:32 UTC (Thu) by geert (subscriber, #98403)In reply to: This Is Pretty Alarmist by david.a.wheeler
Parent article: The Linux Foundation on global regulations and sanctions
> "a one-way receipt of source code via an SDN therefore should be exempt from OFAC sanctions."
The document does mention an exception to that:
"For example, if a developer from AcmeSDN (and AcmeSDN is an SDN subject to OFAC sanctions) contributes a driver that enables the AcmeSDN processor to work in your software, that contribution would likely be an issue."
> In many cases that's all that's happening anyway.
Anyone with statistics about how many (or: how few) patches and patch series have their v1 applied?