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  • They would just be removed from the line up succession. We’ve had cabinet members who were ineligible for the presidency, and they were just not considered as in the line of succession, even though they otherwise would be.

    Edit: here’s the text of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947

    (b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

    Note that it explicitly mentions the Speaker failing to qualify for the presidency




  • If it’s on Github doesn’t that make it OS?

    No, when talking about open source software, people typically refer to a definition along the lines of the Open Source Initiative’s Open Source Definition. To distinguish this from software that you can only see the source (but don’t have rights to copy and modify it), they’ll use the term Source Available Software.

    I don’t really know about the software you guys were talking about, but the repositories I looked at used the MIT license, which is OSI approved. However, that might not be all of the code they use. It’s not uncommon for a company to open source a “base” version, but they deploy a version that’s altered from that (I’ve got no clue whether they do or don’t).