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   Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) (kernellogger@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 17:52:38 JST Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

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   • K. Ryabitsev ????

   2/ Ohh, and if you haven't seen this related post from @monsieuricon, you might want to go and check it out, too:

   https://social.kernel.org/objects/860ef93c-229b-4070-8ee6-cb80d1f51337

   '"[…] I'm not a lawyer and I don't speak for the LF, so I won't give you any kind of "official comment." But here's my view of it.

   The people removed from maintainer positions were identified as employed by companies on the US and EU sanctions list. These companies are directly involved in the Russian military complex and therefore […]"'

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 17:52:38 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • K. Ryabitsev ????
     @kernellogger @monsieuricon sounds plausible, why is the official channel for info like this so evasive and opaque
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     Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) (kernellogger@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 17:52:39 JST Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

     • Linus Torvalds

     @torvalds on the removal of some [russian] entries from the MAINTAINERS file:

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3DwhNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT%2BGg@mail.gmail.com/

     "'It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted [...]

     […] the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

     If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. […]

     […] I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."