As a response to the russian unprovoked war in ukraine I am announcing that i will take steps to reduce the rights to use, study, improve and distribute for all software and hardware that i've released and will release in order to actively prevent it being used in russia's wars to hurt innocent civilians and democratic nations.
I am prepared to violate GPLv3 and take legal action if it means that i won't have blood on my hands.
The current projected solution is a restricted access to content manager and putting in place requirements for identity verification.
Despite this I remain dedicated to the values of Free Software Movement and i will do everything in my power to make sure that everyone outside of russia has access to these projects.
#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GPLv3 #openHardware #UA #Ukraine #UkraineCrisis #standwithUkraine #supportUkraine #FSF #FSFE #FSFLA #FSFI #FSFAU
@colinsmatt11 i want to maintain the principles of Free Software, but i don't want it to be used by russians
Freedom 0: freedom to USE the software FOR ANY REASON, that includes helping people AND hurting people.
@colinsmatt11 i don't mind them using the precompiled binaries i want to restrict the right to study and improve mainly
It would be easier for you to remove all them than cherry pick.
@colinsmatt11 i want to maintain these rights for everyone else but russians or do you have a better solution?
@colinsmatt11 They will still be able to download it and use it without problem that way.. legal route is not sufficient
They can just use VPNs you know.
@colinsmatt11 One way is to maintain a git forge restricted to those who are able to verify themselves as non-russian citizens and vetted
@colinsmatt11 thus the vetting to make sure that this won't happen..
I do plan on keeping some of my project under GPLv3-complying that can't be used to do harm, but i can't in clear contiousness release the aircraft that i am working on
Anything can do harm if used in that manner.
@colinsmatt11 how can you do harm with a hello world program?
@colinsmatt11 i program in rust and GNU Guix in majority which doesn't have this problem
You can't everything with constant strings.
@colinsmatt11 i do QA for all of my software including checks for memory safety
It's your projects and you have the rights to do whatever you want.
If your really don't want "blood on your hands", just distribute the software with the people you trust and that's sure you don't everyone in this world.