Which makes absolutely no sense. It's not the job of the FSF to side with Ukraine, or in general to take a side in wars. Those that support the FSF can have any opinion about any topic unrelated to free software and their money and support shouldn't be used to take a stand on separate issues.
But even if it did take a stand on this (it's still not clear to me why access to free software is any more of a concern than access to anything else, and access to anything else is being regulated through sanctions which are decided by governments), it would fail. There is absolutely nothing preventing anyone who supports Russia, or who simply disagrees with restricting access to software, from mirroring all software programs distributed by the FSF, and any free GNU/Linux distro. As for Debian, it has a social contract: https://www.debian.org/social_contract I believe that not distributing software to a particular part of the world that was using their software before would be against paragraph 4. First, free software is a priority. Not any other political stance. So trying to support Ukraine by reducing free software access in Russia goes against this principle. Second, and more importantly, users are a priority. So preventing Russian users (not just individuals, but companies and government agencies too) from accessing updates to software they use goes after that principle. Some would argue that Debian should take a stand in this because people in Ukraine are users too, but that would be a terrible argument. The intention of that paragraph and the meaning of the word "user" are obviously such that users are a priority *as such* (i.e. because they are users, and are helped by Debian as users). Otherwise, the mission of Debian could simply be "we make the world a better place". None in good faith would ever support such an organization because you can't know what you are actually supporting. An organization which does whatever the person in charge thinks is good, regardless of topic, regardless of what the organization promises, is a fundamentally corrupt organization. The same applies to the FSF: preventing access to free software in Russia would in no way help software freedom, nor would it help free software users as such, and thus it's not something the FSF should do. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss