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[85.141.194.121]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 2adb3069b0e04-53b2e1cbe9dsm873320e87.225.2024.10.27.13.20.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9aa26719-0614-4b83-b638-ac48b69be4e5@apevzner.com> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 23:20:29 +0300 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. To: patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh> Content-Language: en-US From: Alexander Pevzner In-Reply-To: <2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everybody, My name is Alexander Pevzner, and I live in Russia, Moscow. I'm probably one of these "Russian trolls", mentioned by Linus in his message a couple of days ago. Regardless of that, I use Linux as my primary OS since 1.2.13 kernel (so about 30 years for now) and I've contributed few lines of code (or, most likely, few thousand of lines of code) to make driverless printing and scanning work on Linux, so if you use one of those modern multifuction printers, this is very likely that among other stuff you use one of couple of my projects already on our personal computer. As for me, the free software movement is the important thing. Really important. It makes people to cooperate. Not only individuals, but people from competing corporations. The free software movement sometimes "glues" people stronger, that money interest, which often works to separate people. The whole history of the humanity can be seen as a history of ugly wars (the war is always ugly regardless of its reasons, because it always kills the human in a person). From another side, the whole history of the humanity can be seem as a history of cooperation. It was cooperation that allowed us to get out of the caves into outer space, to create computers and to write operating systems and other software for them. Any war will some day end and any government will some day become part of the history, but the story of human cooperation has a chance to outlive the history. In that sense, free software works in direction just opposite to the war. It lets people to cooperate, to see humans in another person's eyes (and code). Even when we are separated by the war. And it puts a lot of responsibility to the free software leaders, because they not only manage lines of code, but somehow define edges of the future of the entire humanity. At least, in some aspects. As a professional, I'm trying to cleanly separate software development from any kind of politics (probably, the same we all expect from the medical doctors). When I receive PR for review or a bug report, I look only to proposed code changes or bug description, regardless on who send me it. The Linux Foundation is the community of software professionals. I understand that this is US organization and it is sometimes obliged by the US laws and regulation. What would I expect from the professional organization in a case like this. The following: 1. The clear public note, that according to some US regulation the people from the sanctioned organizations cannot longer act as kernel maintainers 2. The personal communication with each of them, with explanation what is going on and verification that these persons are under sanctions 3. The clear public note, now with the list of affected persons, explaining that they will be removed from the maintainers list and with the great thanks for the work that they have done before. 4. Inclusion of these peoples into the kernel's hall of fame (the CREDITS list) Nothing of this has be done, unfortunately. This is very, very pity :( -- With the best regards, Alexander Pevzner (pzz@apevzner.com)