Post #1951618
2026-03-22 02:05 UTC
@pavel @wwahammy this is fairly well-trodden territory. They can’t force open-source devs to implement anything, really.
But they CAN regulate what can be SOLD. So the “right” way for RH/Canonical/whoever to comply would be to only ship the required capabilities in Enterprise Desktop versions of their OS. (Arguably they don’t sell an OS at all, but that would be hard to convince a jury of, I bet.)
Then fight any attempt to enforce more than that.
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@pavel@social.kernel.org 2026-03-22 06:57
@calcifer @wwahammy I'm not US expert, and some coverage suggested this applied to "Johny developer places ISO images for download" situation. It is well possible coverage should have been more careful.