I think every other Us based company has to follow the same laws, as you’d expect tbh.

Organic Maps said not to blame this on Microsoft but rather on US law

The above codecs-extra change meant that we now didn’t really have an use case for org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 since codecs-extra had FFMPEG’s internal H.264 decoder and the libx264 encoder.

Sounds like it was basically replaced with codecs-extra

They’re MIT licensed.

And for someone not knowing what that is, it’s a way to install and update stuff no matter what the distro, without messing with distro repo or otherwise messing stuff up.

Mentioning this on Twitter might bring it to his attention and since this is bad PR, he might expedite the complaint so that it gets fixed sooner. That’s probably the thinking here. I’ve seen it happen with companies before

I wasn’t ready to see that my friends are Brownshirts [34]. That they actively cheer on the genocide…I wasn’t ready for my friends being [concentration] camp guards, party officials, propagandists.

Yeah that’d do it