> It does, the Linux kernel maintainers eventually said that's the reason for banning Russian maintainers. As craftkiller interline in a sibling post (https://

> It does, the Linux kernel maintainers eventually said that's the reason for banning Russian maintainers. As craftkiller interline in a sibling post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927430): would this not rather imply that you should ban US-American maintainers (at least on some subsystems)? If Russian maintainers write some Linux kernel code, this will cause no problem for a US export ban. On the other hand, if US-American maintainer does, it might.