> To be fair - anyone contributing to the GPL... I agree, and also to add another point, this actually provides some protection to those authors. If you are a

> To be fair - anyone contributing to the GPL... I agree, and also to add another point, this actually provides some protection to those authors. If you are a maintainer with credentials that allow you to push code into the kernel/driver then you are at risk for coercion and can be leveraged by hostile entities. If those credentials has to go through a secondary or tertiary review process (due to the increased risk), its less likely given the limited benefit that leveraging these authors might be useful. The same would obviously be true for China as well.