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   Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:15:02 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

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   @conservancy General Counsel Rick Sanders just released a blog post about the recent bans of Russian contributors in the Linux project. See his take on the situation and how it applies to your FOSS project: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/dec/12/linux-banned-russian-contributors-do-i-need-to/
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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 04:50:28 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @conservancy Is this a rouse to avoid addressing that the your is recommending non-free software, and making a penny on it? #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #FSF #GNU #RYF

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     Julius Schwartzenberg (jschwart@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 05:33:20 JST Julius Schwartzenberg

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     @conservancy the article is a bit mysterious, especially this part "the Linux project's cautious approach: namely, suspending all Russian contributions to the project temporarily".

     I understand multiple Russians were not removed from the MAINTAINERS file and this removal also is quite different than "suspending all Russian contributions". There would need to be more facts that the MAINTAINERS removal to be able to suggest all Russian contributions are suspended.