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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.aeracode.org/@andrew" class="u-url mention">@<span>andrew</span></a></span> oh that is a very good idea. I might do the same.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> thanks</p>
@whitequark@mastodon.social @SlicerDicer @sun@shitposter.world
Probably your OFSI which has enhanced partnership with US OFAC since 2022
https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2022/10/uk-us-announce-enhanced-partnership-on-economic-sanctions-implementation-enforcement
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> cite any UK regulation to me that prevents me from accepting patches from someone on the OFAC sanctions list</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> weren't able to, or didn't want to?</p>
@whitequark@mastodon.social @SlicerDicer @sun@shitposter.world You're in the UK and you follow almost identical rules as do all of our allies
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> I am not in the USA, thank gods, and if your government prevents you from contributing to open-source projects like Linux you should either emigrate or take up arms in rebellion or something</p>
@whitequark@mastodon.social @feld @sun@shitposter.world It give a shit about you. If you are handling such things and in the USA you don’t want to play prison.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-florida-residents-sentenced-illegally-exporting-controlled-items-libya
@whitequark@mastodon.social @SlicerDicer @sun@shitposter.world hasn't mattered since 1995? Then why do we still have to register our cryptography-containing software with the government in 2024?
Why did FreeBSD have to expel Iranian committer Babak Farrokhi? Oh right, the export sanctions that "hasn't mattered since 1995".
I don't recall when exactly he lost his access as my mail archives don't go back far enough, but we weren't able to welcome him back until 2015. I know for sure because I was the first person to welcome him back on the internal developer mailing list.