tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions (lore.kernel.org)

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[-] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

From that same mail thread:

Moreover, we have to remove any maintainers who come from the following countries or regions, as they are listed in Countries of Particular Concern and are subject to impending sanctions:

Burma, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam.

For People’s Republic of China, there are about 500 entities that are on the U.S. OFAC SDN / non-SDN lists, especially HUAWEI

Some patches are linked where it looks like they're trying to remove vast swathes of Chinese maintainers as well. If they insist with being a US lapdog like this then Linux kernel (as maintained by the Foundation/Torvalds etc) is fucking dead, no contest.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'll make a prediction, I think that the Chinese Academy of Sciences will be given a stewardship role over a domestic fork of the Linux kernel.

I was thinking more about this, and I'll make a further prediction: the US government will ban the import of devices that both require operating systems, and that use operating systems not developed by either American companies or companies in countries closely allied to America.

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Once the CAS makes a fork I will try an OS from them... this just makes it more imparitive I both by a flash drive to burn and try out Nova OS (made by cuba) It might still be the same linux kernal, but atleast Cuba plays with it

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