terraform-aws-modules / terraform-aws-ec2-instance

Terraform module to create AWS EC2 instance(s) resources πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
https://registry.terraform.io/modules/terraform-aws-modules/ec2-instance/aws
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De-politicize source code so that our company does NOT designate it as protestware and a violation of internal policies. #299

Closed cpjones closed 2 years ago

cpjones commented 2 years ago

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Our team has now had to fork this and host it internally to avoid InfoSec's designation as protestware, as well as corporate policies regarding political positions and the nationality component of our DEI initiatives -- our Russian engineers were the ones who identified this as problematic.

It's absolutely your choice to do so, but we find it highly inappropriate. You may disagree, as is your right, but you have ultimately degraded this module's usefulness and appeal in enterprise settings, where Terraform is leveraged all over the place. You've rendered your work radioactive in several quarters.

Apparently we now have to curate the Terraform registry. We already scan SBOMs to keep these things out of NodeJS, Java, etc. projects.

I strongly urge you to strip the politics out of the module code.