Jokes aside, this is ludicrous. The president cannot enforce this regulation over open source projects, because code is free speech going back to the 1990s ATT v BSD case law, and many other cases the establish how source code is an artistic form of expression, thus protected speech.
The president has no authority to regulate speech, so they can pretty much fuck off.
Now I work on Artificial Stupidity...
Jokes aside, this is ludicrous. The president cannot enforce this regulation over open source projects, because code is free speech going back to the 1990s ATT v BSD case law, and many other cases the establish how source code is an artistic form of expression, thus protected speech.
The president has no authority to regulate speech, so they can pretty much fuck off.