Broadcom Rejects Russian Open Source PR

Closed Add Flux.unfold #3897 asakasey wants to merge 2 commits into reactor:main from asakasey:unfold Thank you for this contribution. Unfortunately, as a project stewarded by Broadcom, we are unable to accept contributions from Russian sources due to Broadcom export policy at this time. Thanks for your continued use of Spring. I'm sorry, I'm a little confused. If anyone else (for instance not related to Russia) opens the same PR - do you accept it? So you decided to decline this just based on the contributor ethnicity/nationality. Sounds weird. How do you find this even legal? Is it still 'open source' reactor project? Or it is just free work for you/Broadcom/whatever? Let's check Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in this project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community. So, could you please point us to the policy you used? What do you mean by Russian sources? Thank you.

A GitHub pull request for the Reactor project is closed after a maintainer says contributions from Russian sources cannot be accepted because of Broadcom export policy. Another contributor responds by questioning whether rejecting the PR based on nationality is legal or compatible with open-source and community conduct principles. The meme is used to mock discriminatory corporate policies and hypocritical claims of inclusivity.

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