The actual wording of the bill seems pretty vague
And that’s the issue. Yeah, it probably won’t apply to FOSS today, but times change and maybe it will in 10+ years.
Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world 6 months agoI’m not sure it would cover open source software since it seems to be more concerned with data than the actual code. If that open source software is being used by a company controlled by a foreign adversary then that would probably apply but if it’s open source software created by a foreign adversary but being used by a US company I don’t think that would.
The actual wording of the bill seems pretty vague so I could be wrong and they might be able to apply it just to software but that would kind of to against the entire option B that they’re currently giving ByteDance where they can keep Tik Tok running by selling it to an American company.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
literally all you would have to do for OSS is just fork it to someone living in america, and develop it from there.