  A key drawback to using a Open Source third-party library is the risk of
introducing malicious attacks. In recently times, these threats have taken a
new form, when maintainers turn their Open Source libraries into protestware.
This is defined as software containing political messages delivered through
these libraries, which can either be malicious or benign. Since developers are
willing to freely open-up their software to these libraries, much trust and
responsibility are placed on the maintainers to ensure that the library does
what it promises to do. Using different frameworks commonly used in AI ethics,
we illustrate how an open-source maintainer's decision to protest is influenced
by different stakeholders (viz., their membership in the OSS community, their
personal views, financial motivations, social status, and moral viewpoints),
making protestware a multifaceted and intricate matter.
