Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 25, 2024 3:42 UTC (Fri) by 0x51 (guest, #127460)
In reply to: Here's the official statement via James Bottomley by alexbk
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

According to the statement, all the Huawei guys should be removed from the MAINTAINERS list?

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 25, 2024 5:02 UTC (Fri) by makendo (guest, #168314) [Link]

If it is the Huawei guys being removed, the backlash would be stronger even with angry mobs and alleged trolls excluded. There are more Chinese participating in kernel dev than Russians.

A followup message seems to imply that they are unlikely to be removed unless the lawyers explicitly and clearly told them to. For now we can only pray that a removal of Chinese maintainers, which would _almost definitely_ result in a fork of the Linux codebase, won't happen.

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 25, 2024 10:50 UTC (Fri) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

No, because Huawei is not subject to the same sanctions as Russian government/companies/entities are