Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia.

It was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Linux maintainers being de-listed and made it clear that they were done due to government compliance requirements / legal issues around Russia. Now today some additional light has been shed on those new Linux kernel "compliance requirements".

Longtime Linux developer and EXT4 file-system maintainer Ted Ts'o has also provided some clarity on a separate Linux kernel mailing list thread. In response to a suggested patch removing Huawei from the MAINTAINERS file given their known relations with the Chinese government there was more discussion about possible future removals.

See original news:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop

See Torvalds statement:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

See Compliance Requirements update:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements

See the original commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e90b675cf94

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