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How petty - I'm surprised the kernel team allowed that crap in the first place. This should have been changed the day that murderer was convicted.
Happy to keep politics out of the kernel. It was a historical record. Let’s not 1984 the past.
Are you joking? It's a kernel not a library.
They removed it because it wasn't being maintained and because there are plenty of other actively developed options.
They didn't remove it because of any political reason or because he committed murder.