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Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:04:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:04:40 -0400 From: Patrick Williams To: OpenBMC List Subject: Re: Update on some maintainers / contributors. Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YUmXRSN7TyQ86ZUx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Development list for OpenBMC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: openbmc-bounces+openbmc=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "openbmc" --YUmXRSN7TyQ86ZUx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Linux Foundation made a clarifying post on this situation[1]. [1]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regulations-and= -open-source-us-ofac-sanctions On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 12:31:33AM -0400, Patrick Williams wrote: > Hello, >=20 > This is not a great situation for Open Source as a whole; involving > legal issues and international politics. Since there has been some > public activity on other Open Source projects, especially the kernel, > it seems like we should be more forward about what is going on. >=20 > In early 2022, some of our contributors associated with a specific > company lost access to GitHub. As a result of this they were unable to > access Gerrit. Since that time, access has not been restored and they > continue to not be able to contribute to the project or provide feedback > as maintainers on sub-repositories (which some of them were). >=20 > I assume the reason those developers had their GitHub accounts > suspended was due to their company's appearance on a US government > sanctions list[1]. Recently, the Linux Kernel has removed a number of > maintainers for seemingly similar reasons. A good article on the > situation can be found on Phoronix[2]. >=20 > I have not seen any official/public policy from the Linux Foundation on > this situation, but it appears that high ranking members of the kernel > community decided to act based on some non-public guidance they were give= n. >=20 > The way we are handling the situation is as follows: >=20 > - We use GitHub for authentication to Gerrit and have no plans to > change from this. Anyone interacting with the code there will > need to have GitHub access. Anyone who has been suspended / > blocked by GitHub will not be able to interact with the codebase > by either contributions or reviews. >=20 > - We are not accepting new CCLAs from entities on the sanctions list > or accepting ICLAs from individuals associated with these > entities. >=20 > - Maintainers who have lost access to Gerrit are being removed from > OWNERS files to provide clarity to contributors. I believe this > affects one full repository and one meta layer. I am assigning > myself as the OWNER of the affected repository to ensure continuity > of reviews but would greatly appreciate if someone else has an > interest to take it over. If the situation changes and the > previous maintainers are able to resume participation, we can > restore owner status to them. >=20 > - No change is being implemented to the mailing list or Discord. >=20 > I do not have any advice for individual contributors on the project. If > you have concerns, you may want to seek guidance within your company. >=20 > [1]: https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/1631 > [2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements >=20 > --=20 > Patrick Williams --=20 Patrick Williams --YUmXRSN7TyQ86ZUx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEBGD9ii4LE9cNbqJBqwNHzC0AwRkFAmfuo4YACgkQqwNHzC0A wRkb8w//SBQZ9UFk/iODomlYNC/C1hi17FElJLfky8Y4zeHNyUXj618ip2I3Uqij +/LO8o4rriGSWYjTxkDEyAxFIM/cwAFINZFUIhQgJzeo25X0NVa0m3iuAbMGCU0k MnjlnwGcTmwrpEMPtPFV1XOc5GTj19RMMkvHITuPGKkq/OZWA4Z1CcDKMtgoy8sU RAABSbgP7h2ofVg3W0mKFc3wBK8uQBfAbnY5SwTvCdB0lXi4AAB9CBlDDJrejHNY ZEQIaBI5Ic0FZgG8I3eKICHpxHoL2vymGRBRj9r2g/iowEexft2evjt8YFw4lfsj 6vPwYdEX6Ag96R1rRwUrNZLRTrBNmI0/0gJ7HO1I1Y4eGcziWyQRAwAJ7aGAcGVH Aml+mciLUeKzuElsqJundF0czoMBZ3UTOZF1gygyJQEPPmxFyTOQtpv9mZAyjAPH vPImwgzaO4mVwiUrBGQ82w6WOEEoJk7Q2RwE8K4NTAVerWEgq5bR14Kmx3mYqVvG dGAMSqxpzBgBoO0BeiFEd7b915SE+hGKeKJvnaFkKTiM2shLF+geWEMnibZh2/3g p9ZWuJbJ/oq4+pBtpOtskGBRocmFW4sJ3DbBC4XNFujs+Ssyc/lM7043yOOIeIpr Sl7ARwxmxr1UP6/Duc+o5lrpgaQksrKGyBC0kIFhnujMeo3CLe8= =4FHa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YUmXRSN7TyQ86ZUx--