* Richard Stallman on the removal of Russian Linux maintainers
@ 2024-11-07 22:29 mortodenoite
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From: mortodenoite @ 2024-11-07 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
Free software calls for giving people the freedom to cooperate.
That means a group of people are free to cooperate when they all
want to cooperate.
But that is not the precise requirement. That is a consequence of the
requirements. The precise requirement is that users be free to make
and distribute copies of their modified versions as free software.
Those Russian have a moral right to distribute copies of their
modified versions of Linux. But they have no moral right to demand
that the Linux developers _use_ those changes. Whether you use
someone else's changes should be up to you.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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* Richard Stallman on the removal of Russian Linux maintainers
@ 2024-11-07 22:25 mortodenoite
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From: mortodenoite @ 2024-11-07 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
Free software calls for giving people the freedom to cooperate.
That means a group of people are free to cooperate when they all
want to cooperate.
But that is not the precise requirement. That is a consequence of the
requirements. The precise requirement is that users be free to make
and distribute copies of their modified versions as free software.
Those Russian have a moral right to distribute copies of their
modified versions of Linux. But they have no moral right to demand
that the Linux developers _use_ those changes. Whether you use
someone else's changes should be up to you.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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