emergencyfood@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions
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4 days agoI’m guessing most IoT devices are made in China (or increasingly Southeast Asia), so yes.
The Linux kernel (the code) is open-source. Linux Foundation (the people who write said code) is headquartered in the US. The US can decide what Linux Foundation can and cannot do, who works there, etc. They can’t control who uses the code.