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Subject: Please stop spreading disinformation
From: vallor
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:38 UTC

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From: vallor@cultnix.org (vallor)
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Subject: Please stop spreading disinformation
Date: 30 Oct 2024 21:38:39 GMT
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==|
Please accept all of our apologies for the way this was handled. A
summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under is

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC
sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our
ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and
you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.
|==

Read the thread (and the provenance of this statement) here:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b545a75b-868b-4238-94c9-d647b4da27e2@linux.dev/T/#t

tl;dr: LF has apparently been contacted about sanctions violations.
Yes, Linus was a bit out-of-line with his comments, but the decision
to remove developers that work for certain Russian companies came
from the U.S. Govt. sanctions.

And I have to shake my head at qAnon mind virus victims
who think sanctions on Russia are (reads notes) "Marxist".

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Subject	Author
Please stop spreading disinformation	vallor