I think that this would be great, since source code auditing would provide insight into anti-consumer additions like malicious backdoors, hidden spyware capabilities, unintended vulnerabilities, etc. However, this could be very bad if this passes and then escalates to mandatory source code modification at the request of a sovereign state. As always, there are possible pros and cons to this approach.

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    12 hours ago

    Whats even the point theirs plenty of engineers in the country with source code access? Maybe the Chinese ones don’t hire in India so its aimed towards them.

    I want a government thats requires mandatory AGPL for most classes of software.