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.

  • Rowan Thorpe@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    That makes sense too. I guess it’s a very difficult balance to hit, for all concerned. I think a lot of the famous outbursts that happen on LKML are probably an inevitable side-effect of that balancing-act, and of maintainers being stretched in multiple directions.