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Section 604 Decompiled: Hoskinson Defends the Open-Source Developer Shield Behind the meter on the CLARITY Act fight, there is a single clause that decides whether the United States stays a competitive jurisdiction for protocol engineering or quietly exports it.
Section 604 is the safe harbor that draws a legal line between people who write open-source code and people who use that code to commit crimes.
Charles Hoskinson, founder of the Cardano network, spent the week telling lawmakers in plain language that removing it would be an own-goal.
Charging a maintainer for what a downstream user does with their compiler output, he argued, is the equivalent of charging a novelist for a reader's violent act.
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