From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: devinu@fsf.org, libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:11:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nOAuC-0000nW-I1@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yhh7tevsz3Ha5xY+@protected.localdomain> (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:48:21 +0300)
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
The GNU Project stays neutral on unrelated political issues. It does
not take sides in international disputes, except for disputes about
free software issues.
A free license must offer the four freedoms to all users, and it must
not try to restrict what jobs users can do with the program. See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html
for why this must be so.
The FSF must obey US law, including any sanctions on dealings between
US organizations and Russians or Russian companies. I think that is what
Devin was talking about.
But that won't affect whether Russians can use free software.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-24 8:04 Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Jacob Hrbek
2022-02-24 17:00 ` Devin Ulibarri
[not found] ` <Yhh7tevsz3Ha5xY+@protected.localdomain>
2022-02-25 12:15 ` Devin Ulibarri
2022-02-25 15:32 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-02-26 0:48 ` Thomas Lord
2022-02-26 1:34 ` Should we take steps to reduce Russian access to Free Software? No J.B. Nicholson
2022-02-27 4:10 ` Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 4:59 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-01 7:52 ` Jean Louis
2022-02-27 4:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
[not found] ` <35700904-028a-1dbf-3d48-0478701ae0f8@gmail.com>
2022-03-01 4:24 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 10:50 ` Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness gregor
2022-03-02 6:18 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-02 6:58 ` gregor
2022-03-03 5:07 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-03 13:51 ` gregor
2022-03-03 15:56 ` Devin Ulibarri
2022-03-03 18:45 ` Ole Aamot
2022-03-04 15:13 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-04 15:42 ` Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
[not found] ` <c54b6cbc-a88a-3abf-2f60-b0fb2ca0d066@rixotstudio.cz>
2022-03-06 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-08 11:01 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-03-08 22:50 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-09 16:20 ` Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Félicien Pillot
2022-03-09 16:43 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-09 18:03 ` Erica Frank
2022-03-10 16:01 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-03-11 16:16 ` Matt Ivie
2022-03-12 5:27 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-12 17:48 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-12 18:53 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-13 3:52 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-13 9:51 ` Federico Leva (Nemo)
2022-03-13 15:07 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-13 17:33 ` gregor
2022-03-13 18:51 ` Miles Fidelman
2022-03-13 20:25 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-12 19:36 ` Miles Fidelman
2022-03-12 23:44 ` Getting the truth into Russia Akira Urushibata
2022-03-13 17:57 ` Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Jean Louis
2022-03-13 23:49 ` Ron Nazarov via libreplanet-discuss
2022-03-14 1:57 ` Akira Urushibata
2022-03-14 2:01 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-14 5:50 ` "Open Source" is vague term referring to guns, wine, spirituality, etc Jean Louis
2022-03-14 21:01 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-14 21:17 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-14 21:48 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-15 5:26 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-14 22:01 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-15 6:10 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-15 11:54 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-18 6:14 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-11 5:15 ` Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Richard Stallman
2022-03-11 14:36 ` knowledgeofnations
2022-03-11 15:03 ` Miles Fidelman
2022-03-11 18:22 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-12 16:55 ` Miles Fidelman
2022-03-08 23:22 ` Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness Matt Ivie
2022-03-09 4:21 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30 22:44 ` Ole Aamot
[not found] ` <CAA+nH92ffd9PqZ0S=6tvJN4K+j64J4CU8AKwSPu=McWr=eZwww@mail.gmail.com>
2022-03-31 6:32 ` Ole Aamot
2022-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-09 8:05 ` Free software is not perpetrator Jean Louis
2022-03-09 15:21 ` Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness Federico Leva (Nemo)
2022-03-02 11:12 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-03 5:07 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 17:53 ` Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software? Julian Daich
2022-02-24 17:10 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-02-24 18:03 ` Aaron Wolf
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-02-24 17:43 Arthur Torrey
2022-02-24 17:57 ` gregor
2022-02-24 18:17 ` Arthur Torrey
2022-02-24 18:35 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-03-01 4:37 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-01 6:09 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-01 16:20 ` Aaron Wolf
2022-03-01 19:10 ` Valentino Giudice
2022-03-02 8:02 ` Jean Louis
2022-02-24 18:06 ` rapt--- via libreplanet-discuss
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