A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (Department of Homeland Security — DHS) ultimately using the code. Chef gets owned in the process.
ZDNet has a good rundown of the incident:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-finds-out-ice-was-using-it/
It seems that developers at chef may have used an old copy of the dev's code to get things back up and running again, which seems like exactly the wrong approach.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by number11 on Monday September 23 2019, @03:33AM
But there's nothing in the license that requires the developer (or anyone else) to continue to maintain a copy online. It's like "buying" something like a music file that depends on a DRM server to access. When they shut the DRM server down, I guess you still own your copy, but it's unuseable. (Microsoft, to their credit, is offering to refund the cost to some buyers, but not every company does.)