Sorry. I didn’t mean to direct to an specific president. It applies to any US president. Trump is a bit more aggressive, but he is like this about anything.

Monsters. And while the have their dog in the white house, nothing will happen to them.

I think this is not exactly the point. I never thought that license would fight rocket. Nor I thought that an authoritarian regime would respect license.

The first point affects more countries and companies that still keep ties with those regimes.

The second point is to have a clear position. For me it is hypocritical to say “open source for a better world” at the same time that we say “how my contributions are used is not my problem”.

I bet with you that commo libraries like slf4j, junit, poetry, fastapi, etc. are being used by those regimes and their associates very often. Make a license more restrictive would create legal problems for any legitimate foreign entity to buy from those regimes. If they opt to re-inplement those libraries, it’s fine as well: tons of resources and money expended by those jerks.

Even commercial licenses are problematic to enforce, I know. But send a clear message seems a point where our hands can reach and worth to pursue.

What would you expect from President Musk and his craving for rare-earth, and his dog, Donnie T, shaking his tail back to US Oligarchs? Off course Ukraine would be the side loosing everything while Donnie and Vlad would rejoices in more wealth.