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It’s not linux’s job to be an ethical gatekeeper

Are people not allowed to complain when someone supports something that is unethical when they could easily not do that?

if you’re from a certain country, from a certain background or whatever, should you not be allowed to contribute the kernel? Or submit a bug report?

The people ruling the country are doing the unethical things, not the people that just happened to be born in the country, maybe fell victim to propaganda / Is it not normal to not allow someone to contribute to a project if they are currently doing problematic things?

And the Linux project, in particular, is not in the business of trying to personally judge every entity behind the code contributions.

Judging a technology is not the same as judging a person. There arent an unreasonable amount of different technologies that people complain about to not be able to judge each one

Maintainers/reviewers don’t have to like LLMs, but it’s not really Linux’s job to judge who (or what) wrote the contribution

People can feel alienated from contributing to a project if they consider it unethical

And it’s also impractical. Contributors are going to use agents, so mind as well encourage them to attribute them rather than encouraging them to be unethical, and hiding it.

Stealing is illegal, but people still do it. Its impractical to catch every person that has ever stolen something so why bother trying at all?

Arent the issues with ai in the linux kernel ethical, not about code quality?

i hope linux phones succeed

you can probably find something that runs DOOM