> Who is the “our” that owns Linux? Well, the Linux Foundation which owns the Linux® trademark and employs the primary maintainer is based in the US: * https:

> Who is the “our” that owns Linux? Well, the Linux Foundation which owns the Linux® trademark and employs the primary maintainer is based in the US: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation Some of the most active contributer employers are Intel, Google, Linaro, AMD, Red Hat, SuSE, Meta, Oracle, Qualcomm, IBM, NVIDIA, TI, Arm, Microsoft: * https://lwn.net/Articles/972605/ https://lwn.net/Articles/972605/ * https://kernelnewbies.org/DevelopmentStatistics https://kernelnewbies.org/DevelopmentStatistics which are based in countries that have Russia on a sanctions list. The main contributer employer based in a country that doesn't have Russia on some list is Huawei. So given those folks contribute the most code to Linux, they may not want possible complications with regards to possible legal issues.