So there is a debate about whether a license should be able to have "field of endeavor" limits and still be considered open source; how much control open source authors should (or can) have over it's use.<p>What is going on here does NOT seem to be simply a case of the government using open source code.<p>> "While I understand that many of you and many of our community members would prefer we had no business relationship with DHS-ICE, I have made a principled decision, with the support of the Chef executive team, to work with the institutions of our government, regardless of whether or not we personally agree with their various policies," Crist wrote, who added that Chef's work with ICE started during the previous administration.<p>So it seems what happened here is Chef the company went beyond writing FOSS that happened to be picked up by ICE, they have some business relationship with ICE where they get paid.<p>I thought chef was open source, so was confused about what selling the code would entail, but googling discovered that it was "open core"... until apparently April of this year when they released all code apache? <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/chef-goes-100-open-source/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/chef-goes-100-open-source/</a><p>Which leaves me a bit more confused.<p>Vargo was a former employee of Chef the company... who maybe also made open source contributions to the project after he no longer worked there? Unclear.<p>But this quote from CEO Crist is just garbage:<p>> "My goal is to continue growing Chef as a company that transcends numerous U.S. presidential administrations. And to be clear: I also find policies such as separating families and detaining children wrong and contrary to the best interests of our country," he wrote.<p>And you determined there were no ways of "growing Chef as a company" that didn't require aiding and profiting from activities you yourself consider wrong?<p>Does he really think this is a sentence that makes sense and makes him look good? I think he simply told us he prioritizes money above his own values, basically that he is a moral coward unwilling to stand by his convictions.<p>But yeah, the article doesn't give the open-source-geeky details we developers interested in open source want. What exactly is the relationship between Chef Inc and ICE? Of Vargo to Chef Inc? Vargo stopped being a chef employee when, and.. continued to contribute to chef after that? What is this "revert to a previous version" going on, to what previous version, a version before Vargo even had any contributions, or what? Which came first, Chef Inc. or chef as a community open source project?