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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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[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

It is not about it being public. He just wants it on the mailing list.

The people subscribed to the mailing list are all people involved in or specifically interested in kernel development. The hope is that the conversations there will be less technical and less political. What he does not want is a bunch of social or political pressure from drive by opinion holders on social media (like us).

It is fine for us to be discussing there discussion here. But he wants the discussion to be had “there”.

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