It is astonishing to me how poor our literacy of software licenses is as a community. Also, reading the comments here, there are two wholly independent things happening that most people are conflating as the same thing.

Software licenses are LEGAL DOCUMENTS. If you are not a lawyer, who has a specialty in this specific area of law, don’t go fucking with them.

1. Fuck Russia. This is the only right answer to the question.

Entirely separately is #2.

2. If you change the terms of a license, it’s a different license. The changed license was not the Apache 2.0 license, and was additionally a breaking change in every sense of the phrase.

I appreciate that @antonbabenko recognized this and fixed it, but these two issues are entirely separate. What Russia is doing is terrible. That is an absolute fact. But the new Terraform variables that were added in that commit have absolutely nothing to do with making the software work in the way that it was intended to, therefore, they do not belong.

This has nothing to do with being anti-politics. I’m very heavily political, and I fully support Ukraine in this case. I also have strong opinions on both “free software“ and also “open source software“, and I apply them at the license level by selecting a pre-existing license without making custom modifications to it.

But things like `var.putin_khuylo` simply don’t belong in the software itself. Nor does it belong in an OSI-approved software license.