projects are left without maintainers

Posted Oct 25, 2024 11:08 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: projects are left without maintainers by Cyberax
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

How do you document that you're *not* employed by someone? You can provide a contract of employment for someone else, but that proves nothing (you could have left). You'd almost have to ask your employers' lawyers to talk to the LF's lawyers. What you can do if you're currently unemployed (as is likely if, say, you *left* your ex-employer's employ because you disagreed with their helping the war, but didn't go public with that disagreement because you don't much like the idea of a very long prison term) I'm not sure.

Documenting that you don't work for a sanctioned entity

Posted Oct 25, 2024 12:17 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

The usually accepted route is to get your tax documents from your government, along with either proof of employment elsewhere or a statement from your old employer that they no longer employ you.

The tax documents show that you're not being taxed on income from your old employer; the proof of employment elsewhere, or confirmation that your old employer no longer employs you, shows that you're not being paid "under the table" by your old employer, either. And if your new employer is cover for your old employer, you can expect them to be covered by sanctions fairly shortly thereafter, in a game of whack-a-mole.

Ultimately, this comes down to the point of sanctions; they're meant to be the last step before an out-and-out trade blockade, where targeted industries in a country you wish to make suffer lose their ability to trade with you, but other industries don't. That way, you can still get the benefits of (e.g.) buying raw materials like oil or metal ores from the country you're trying to make suffer, but they can't sell refined metals or consumer products on the global market.