[sumanthvepa]

I agree. It's not big deal. The Russian team can just fork the kernel, and manage it under their own legal structures. It's really not that hard. Indeed CentOS was maintained by just one person for many years.

It's not a big deal for Linux either, the code in question is mostly for devices that are not sold in the west. So no loss there.

That's the beauty of open source, you can say no to contributions for any reason whatsoever, and the contributor can fork your code and continue to develop it as they please.