[doikor]

And the sentence before that said

> If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

And the sentence right before that

> And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

Meaning there is also valid legal reasons to do this with both the country he is living in (US) and the country he is from (Finland) having sanctions on the companies whose employees are being excluded. I think the is also a US citizen.

tl;dr; read the whole post instead of taking a single quote out of context.

[xgstation]

If I have to guess that is likely the case, but if that is the case then reasoning and formal process should me made clear and transparent, while the weird part is that Huawei is also under sanctions and has a lot people contributed to Linux, but they are not removed. So what is our standard process here?

[doikor]

AFAIK the US Huawei sanctions are not a blanket "have nothing to do with them at all" but instead apply to telecoms equipment and phones and their components. Don't think software is a component.

There was some talk about banning Huawei access to AOSP but I don't think that ever went through.

And yes sanctions are weird. Finland is sanctioning a lot of Russian business including travel over the border for most part but still there is a train load of copper and nickel ore coming over every day or two.

[Hamuko]

Finnish–Russian border being closed isn't because of any sanctions, but rather because Russia flooded the border with refugees, up to a point where it even prevented their own citizens from getting back to Russia through the border crossings.

[_w1tm]

This does seem a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water but it’s understandable that the kernel project doesn’t have the resources for a more granular approach when even large organizations struggle with this problem.

I’m always in for making more clear and transparent processes though.

[d_milivojevic]

You have no idea that the LF has a yearly budget of around 200M dollars?

[five_lights]

I think they have been transparent as they legally can be. We're going to have to read between the lines here.