This was the 2014 vote of the Debian Technical Committee: https://lwn.net/Articles/585504/ https://lwn.net/Articles/585504/ Of the 8 voting members, at the ti

This was the 2014 vote of the Debian Technical Committee: https://lwn.net/Articles/585504/ https://lwn.net/Articles/585504/ Of the 8 voting members, at the time Steve Langasek and Colin Watson were currently employed and Ian Jackson had been previously employed by Canonical. None of the 8 voting members were employed by Red Hat at the time. Here's a comment with more research into affiliations at the time: https://lwn.net/Articles/585026/ https://lwn.net/Articles/585026/