Huang: Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War

Bunnie Huang writesabout the escalating trade wars and how they could be harmful to theopen-source community. "Because the administrative action so faragainst Huawei relies only upon export license restrictions, the LinuxFoundation has been able to find shelter under a license exemption for opensource software. However, should Huawei be designated as a 'foreignadversary' under EO13873, it greatly expands the scope of the ban becauseit prohibits transactions with entities under the direction or influence offoreign adversaries. The executive order also broadly includes anyinformation technology including hardware and software with no exemptionfor open source."