Complexity of legal problems

The other alternative, in this mad world where you may find some country somewhere decides you've broken their rules and deams you a criminal because you.... worked on writing Free Software (perhaps in collaboration with others) and you fell afoul of illiberal laws (be they ones which deem certain software illegal or ones which deem certain people as beyond the pale), is to do such work entirely anonymously. It takes care and dedication to do this, but it is possible.

There are already a good number of contributors to various projects who keep themselves anonymous. I expect we'll see this continue. Young people today seem much more conscious of online privacy and keeping a wall between their online and offline identities, than my generation - so this may come naturally.

There are also spheres of Free Software where the nature of the software strongly leads contributors to elect to be anonymous, because the nature of the software offends 1 or more governments around the world. Often, that nature being that the software gives users privacy from the government, e.g. in their communications, their data, or their financial interactions.

Governments really hate privacy. Maybe we should exercise it more.