On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, 03:48 FMDF, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Let me explain why I'm posting such an unusual question and why I really > _NEED_ reliable answers and (above all) reliable links to official > documents... > > In Wikipedia there is an article called "Linux kernel" at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel. > > According to XTools I'm the first of more than 1500 editors. I'm the one > who contributed the most. I'm proud of it, despite it still needs lots of > additional relevant information and perhaps it also needs the removal of > other not so relevant and/or redundant info. > > It's a "Class B" article (something that has been peer-reviewed by > thousands of people and considered two grades less than the top Wikipedia's > articles). > > Unfortunately, there have been several attempts to state that Linux is > _not_ a free and open source kernel and that it contains proprietary binary > blobs. > > I'm asking for help to remove those fake information, mainly sponsored and > backed by the FSF and by the Linux libre project (or something like that). > > Can someone please provide reliable sources that I can use when reverting > the above-mentioned false information? Unfortunately, I cannot simply > revert them by just saying that the Linux Community won't ever accept non > GPLv2 complaint >
Sorry, "complaint" --> "compliant". code. > > There is a strict rule that says "No original research": mostly everything > must be supported by links to third party reliable documentation (web, > books, and so on). > It simply means that I cannot tell, for instance, that the Maintainers of the subsystems I have submitted patches to (first of all, Greg Kroah-Hartman) won't ever accept unsigned code and/or proprietary binary blobs, just because any personal experience with working with the Community is not considered a "reliable and authoritative source of information". Thanks, Fabio M. De Francesco Again, can someone please help? > > Thanks, > > Fabio M. De Francesco >
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