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by Filligree 353 days ago
> Of course it is. And nobody said otherwise, because that is explicitly stated on the commit message

Don’t be ridiculous. The majority of people are in fact honest, and won’t submit such code; the major effect of the policy is to prevent those contributions.

Then you get plausible deniability for code submitted by villains, sure, but I’d like to hope that’s rare.