I was under the impression that many large corporate actors with interests in proprietary hardware and software make regular contributions to the Linux kernel a

I was under the impression that many large corporate actors with interests in proprietary hardware and software make regular contributions to the Linux kernel and ecosystem. Also, why does the person making the change matter? If they're not a vexatious time waster, then who cares who they are as long as the changes are coherent? Finally, I'll note that the GitHub issue linked is against systemd/systemd. It's not a binding change to the entire ELF format, it's a request for maintainers of distros to comment on whether or not adding this optional field might be helpful to them. They can just say "no", and who published the RFC remains irrelevant.