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Linus sets his foot down, against the gatekeeping attempts in the kernel (lore.kernel.org)

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So let me be very clear: if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 days ago

Holy moly that is a man page of a roast. Linus has gotten extremely good at making himself clear while maintaining his temper just enough.

His argument is applicable to much of FLOSS: your code and contributions you have say over, but you can't complain about how people used your FLOSS code endpoints downstream. In exchange, any changes you make are the accessors' responsibility to keep up with.