To discuss the removal of the mayor from the Russian Federation joined jam With Bottomley (James Bottomley), the mayor of the subsystem SCSI, who previously held posts of a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Technical Advisory Council of Linux Foundation. James apologized for removing, and explained that removal is related to sanctions against companies from the Russian Federation that fell into the list of onac SDN published by the US Department of Finance. According to James, the opportunity to cooperate with companies from the United States for employees of companies in the sanctions list is limited and similar employees cannot be among the Linux nucleus.
If the deletion is mistaken and the current employer is not in the indicated list, then the developer should provide information about this to Greg Kroa Hartman (this is precisely the documentation, which was discussed in the first message about the removal). In any case, James promised if necessary to add to the Credits file a mention of the deposit of remote participants to the development of the nucleus. The reason for following the sanctions is called the presence in the United States of the entire infrastructure for the development of the Linux nucleus and a large number of accompanying. Because of this, when developing the nucleus, it is impossible to ignore the requirements of the US legislation.
James also expressed the hope that removal from the list of mayor will be enough to satisfy the requirements of the US Department of Finance and from the nucleus will not have to delete the code transmitted by suction developers. In a separate letter to James wrote that the delay in the publication of the explanations and answers to questions associated with that lawyers still continue to discuss the specifics of following the sanctions when developing the nucleus and further intend to publish a detailed document describing the rules related to sanctions.
James’s explanation was sent in response to