RE: Free Software is political
free software should not be used for political purposes
Um. Did you read anything I wrote at all?
Or maybe Freedom 0, as defined by the Free Software Foundation:
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
The act of writing Free Software is a political act. By definition.
Governments absolutely can use Free Software (per Freedom 0). And they absolutely should, because they should be transparent to their citizenry, which means the software they write and use should be available to the public to help verify that they're not doing anything nefarious. Stallman writes at length in his book that government has an obligation to use Free Software on ethical grounds.
I genuinely have no idea what you're even talking about, but it's not Free Software.
I mean that if a government "takes the source code" of xxx project to do something, it is fair to release that product under the same license (unless the same license does not optionally allow such a thing, for example BSD licenses / MIT). In the case of the "Petro" cryptocurrency of the Venezuelan government as far as it is known, it was based on the Ethereum source code (apparently they changed at the end). Ethereum is open source (although it has multiple licenses including MIT), I think the "fair" thing is that the source code is released or at least "contributions" from the Venezuelan government, but nothing, Petro is a closed product, you can see on its official website https://www.petro.gob.ve/index.html that the source code is not available, nor do they make references to what was taken in part from free software, I think that is frank "plagiarism" (even though there is a MIT permissive license, at least thank the base project, but nothing) . That's what I meant that the opensource code should not be used for governmental or personal purposes without even mentioning or thanking the original source.
Oh! That's an entirely different animal.
I wouldn't trust any cryptocurrency that isn't 100% Free Software, frankly. I barely trust cryptocurrency at all. :-)
And IMO government should be required to use as much Free Software as possible and release as much of it as possible, whether they write it themselves or not. (Modulo nuclear launch systems and stuff like that.)