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Ethereum's Suicide Clause: Has Decentralization Become Corporate Obedience? Ethereum was supposed to be about freedom , transparency , and the elimination of centralized control . But a bizarre workplace controversy is raising an uncomfortable question: What happens when the organization protecting decentralization begins behaving worse than the very institutions it was designed to challenge? On November 7 , news emerged about a lawsuit filed by former Ethereum Foundation employee Kayleen Fulton . The former Protocol Support lead alleges she was terminated after opposing a provision in the foundation's organizational mandate known as the Source Seppuku License . The language was extraordinary. It called for authors, maintainers, and distributors of covered software to take their own lives with a sword if they failed to uphold the license's pledges. Although the provision appeared to be deliberately theatrical rather than a literal employment requirement , e...