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That is what new laws are for.

>>within+(OP)
No, they aren't. Even in the most liberal interpretation of the new laws, there's nothing specifying that you need to continue making your open-source package continually and indefinitely available.

>>mjr00+P1
I don't mean THESE new laws, just new laws in general.

> nothing specifying that you need to continue making your open-source package continually and indefinitely available.

There's a difference between making it available, and deliberately causing harm and untold productivity loss in a single day. This was a case of the latter.

>>within+G3
Someone deleted a publicly accessible file off the internet, and it broke workflows of people with whom they have no existing contract. Good luck proving that was done to deliberately cause harm.

>>mjr00+kj
In this case, they freely admitted to doing it with the intent to harm. A person slapping me in the face doesn’t have a contract with me, but they are still liable for that harm. This isn’t rocket science.