Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik Buterin face suit over ex-staffer's 'suicide pledge' claim

Former Ethereum core developer Nixo has filed a lawsuit against the Ethereum Foundation and founder Vitalik Buterin, The Block reported. Nixo claimed internal foundation guidelines included a "suicide pledge" and said Nixo was fired after disclosing a cancer diagnosis. According to the report, the pledge said source code documents must always be made available for free and that if a signatory failed to comply or modified or deleted part of the license, the signatory would have to take their own life. The foundation had previously said the disputed wording reflected a cultural context and did not literally require such an act. Nixo nonetheless stressed the wording appeared in an official document laying out the foundation's long-term operating principles, and said employees had asked for it to be removed but it remained in the final document.