The Guardian about Debian

[Peter van Summeren <peter_van_summeren@hotmail.com>]

Hello,

I read today in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2018/aug/16/i-want-to-boycott-us-pc-hardware-software-services#img-1

"While GNU/Linux is mostly American, at least the kernel was started by Linus Torvalds in Finland, though he moved to the US decades ago and is now a US citizen. Happily, there are some non-American Linux distributions such as Canonical’s Ubuntu. Canonical was founded and bankrolled by a South African, Mark Shuttleworth, and is based in London. However, Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux, which is American."

What are the consequences for Debian to fall under USA law NOW? Note: look at "happily" above. It seems to me that the Guardian is somewhat short here. (No mentioning about checking the kernel, open software etc.)

With friendly greetings,

Peter van Summeren