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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Removing people from CREDITS looks like someone should have been mindful before acting.
They were removed from MAINTAINERS, which is what identifies the people responsible for maintaining a piece of code, a subsystem of Linux, not the credits, which is encoded in the git commit history.