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[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Linus is American ๐Ÿค•๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

He's a dual citizen. He was onboard with banning Russian Linux maintainers for attacking Ukraine so they can't sabotage the kernel.

He is however very quite on USA doing the same shit and more. ๐Ÿค”

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

Let's see if he is consistent on stopping this aggression.

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yeah I'm not gonna pretend to be a lawyer but I'm curious how it all works with GPL and all that. It's open source software. Can't a citizen from another country without these laws or something just fork there kernel and not comply with the law and state that they don't need to follow US laws because they're not American?