Here's an article from a trusted source about it in a little more detail as well.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-remove-russian-maintainers-of-linux-kernel-heres-what-torvalds-says/ "While this action has removed these maintainers from their official roles, it does not bar them entirely from contributing to the Linux kernel. They can still propose changes and be reinstated -- if they meet yet-to-be-specified documentation requirements in the future." On Oct 23 2024, at 7:25 pm, fennic log <fennic...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was recently brought to my attention that the USA has passed an Executive > Order which prohibits Russian citizens from contributing to software used in > the USA. > > > Reference material; > https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/932951/download?inline > https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/1187 > > The Linux Kernel has recently had to act on this #6e90b675cf94 > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e90b675cf94) > github mirror > (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70e8394dfb5862975c3b3b2) > Mailing list https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/ > > Has PHP internals reviewed this, do we need to review this, are there any if > any steps we must take? > > From what I have been reading + excerpts from linux group, PHP has to take > action to comply with this order.
