His personal feelings aside, see this comment [0] for the possible legal impetus. If this is in-fact applicable to Linux kernel dev, then this may occur in oth

His personal feelings aside, see this comment [0] for the possible legal impetus. If this is in-fact applicable to Linux kernel dev, then this may occur in other projects as well. > In that case that effectively makes Linux a NATO-adjacent project I would argue that being forced to include some specific maintainer would make that possibly more true than being forced to exclude. Hmm, does that make sense to anyone else? Additionally, if I understand the situation, the users who are being discussed can still contribute, just not as official maintainers? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932912