which I usually call scharfes S

which Debian? Have you considered Debian testing or unstable?

If it's in the public domain, it's almost certainly legal. I don't have the general answer to your question.

Really this question shows how outdated copyright law is; in many countries it prohibits "copying", but in the age of computers nearly all accessing of information involves "copying" it in some way.

Remember when center-left social-democratic parties were more likely to defend civil liberties, less likely to be authoritarian, than center-right conservative ones?

You know actually I am not sure this was ever the case in the UK (I am old enough to somewhat remember Tony Blair), but in theory it is how it should be and it makes me angry when it is not.

OsmAnd (another OSM-based app) allows you to set underlay maps from external sources which will be downloaded from those external sources as needed. I do not know if Organic Maps has this feature too but it can clearly be done.

How would SCOTUS even be able to rule that marijuana has to be illegal, when Congress repealed the law making it illegal? That is not how law works.

If you're naming variables like that in Java you should definitely switch to C.

Dog bites man vs. Man bites dog

I didn't get more conservative as I grew older. At least I don't think I did. What happened is that the definition of conservative changed.

Criticizing censorship and restrictions on free speech didn't use to be a conservative cause, it is now, so I grew "more conservative" without any of my beliefs changing.

What has changed significantly since 2015?

You know that there are paid email services that aren't Gmail, right?

Possibly licensing reasons. Linux is GPLv2 only, Hurd seems to be GPLv2 or later, there could be reasons you may want to use something under the GPLv3.