Subj : Sanctions Hit Linux Kerne
To   : RON L.
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Oct 25 2024 16:07:00

>  MP> Sanctions Hit Linux Kernel, Russian Programmers Banned

>  MP> Biden's Executive Order 14071, forbids Russians from working with or
>  MP> using GPL'd software made in the USA.  And that includes the Linux
>  MP> Kernel.

> Executive Orders can only tell gov't agencies what to do.  They are not
> dictates to the general public.

Most federal government agencies (and any state and local ones who want to
use federal data) are already barred from using "offshore developers,"
Russian or otherwise.

> If the Russian programmers were banned, then it was done by the maintainers of
> the Linux kernel because they could have just ignored the illegal EO.

I would also guess that to be the case -- that the maintainers would ban
them.


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