> going to open a huge can of worms if you are going to start prosecuting people for software pull requests
Tornado is sanctioned, not the underlying code. Contributing to the project is legally tantamount to coding for a North Korean entity. This isn’t a start to anything, it’s established law and practice.
Simply pulling shouldn't be a problem. But I can see law enforcement getting a subpoena for a list of accounts that pulled that repo to find and stop copycats.
What would be the legal consequences of forking the project and create a new project with the code?
And speaking of code - North Korea has their own os which is essentially a reskinned version of Linux. Does that mean that the US government could go after people who contributed to the Linux project?
> Does that mean that the US government could go after people who contributed to the Linux project?
No. You’re comparing money laundering, which has stricter controls, to exporting software, which doesn’t. (If you knowingly provide support to Pyongyang, probably.)
Tornado is sanctioned, not the underlying code. Contributing to the project is legally tantamount to coding for a North Korean entity. This isn’t a start to anything, it’s established law and practice.
Simply pulling shouldn't be a problem. But I can see law enforcement getting a subpoena for a list of accounts that pulled that repo to find and stop copycats.