What if..

>>56030810
It would be extremely painful...

>>56030863
In what way?

>>56030863
It's a big project.

>>56030810
If the project can in any way be classified as malware, the project's life is basically at the discretion of the assumed judge. Precedent cases have shown that the difference between developing malware and distributing malware is completely subjective and up to the, most likely aging luddite, judge appointed.

>>56030810
How's that supposed to work?
If the project is sufficiently big, there are probably developers from different countries working on it. So you would need a worldwide law.

>>56030863
for (you)

>>56030810
What if youre developing that open source project to be legal and thus not subject to ban. Is working on it allowed then?

>>56030810
Well, one of the developers of shadowsocks, clowwindy, practically had the feds knock on his door and ask him to cease development of the project
See https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/commit/938bba32a4008bdde9c064dda6a0597987ddef54

>>56034117
Forgot to mention, do note that this was in China, so not exactly the best place for freedom of speech

>>56034131
>China
kinda a nonissue then.

Would be more interested in western countries doing it.

there was that tor developer that did get run out of the country by the feds.

what happened to the guys that did gnutella back in the day?