Always possible but you will need to go back before the Code of Conduct was implemented as every contribution thereafter has to adhere to it and by design, agree to a certain political line.
What happened to the concept of meritocracy without any political interference that we used to have with the kernel?
I suppose that depends on what is meant by "stealing." You can't stop someone from copying your code. You can stop them from claiming it as their own proprietary invention. You still have your copyright. You've merely granted a wide-ranging license.
Yes it's free and open source, been done many times. He literally has no power.
Always possible but you will need to go back before the Code of Conduct was implemented as every contribution thereafter has to adhere to it and by design, agree to a certain political line.
What happened to the concept of meritocracy without any political interference that we used to have with the kernel?
All we would have to do is block him from stealing our code.
You can't "block someone from stealing your code" under the GPL, nigga.
I suppose that depends on what is meant by "stealing." You can't stop someone from copying your code. You can stop them from claiming it as their own proprietary invention. You still have your copyright. You've merely granted a wide-ranging license.
Sure, but that's not really a problem a linux kernel fork would be likely to face.