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Linux code contributions cannot be rescinded: Stallman

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Sam Varghese
Sep 28, 2018

Linux developers who contribute code to the kernel cannot rescind those contributions, according to the software programmer who devised the GNU General Public Licence version 2.0, the licence under which the kernel is released.

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Sam Varghese

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