linux-kernel - Richard Stallman on the removal of Russian Linux maintainers

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Message-ID: <a52180ee7fe5ab1e55fa549d0391e019@pissmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:25:33 +0000
From: mortodenoite@...smail.com
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Richard Stallman on the removal of Russian Linux maintainers

[[[ 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)