Richard Stallman on the removal of Russian Linux maintainers

[mortodenoite]

[[[ 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.

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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)