Re: [PATCH 25/25] MAINTAINERS: remove widely sanctioned entities

[Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>]

Hi,

A bit offtopic: we just received patches from Syntacore [1]. Syntacore
does not appear in the US sanction list website, but in a Google search
I found out that Syntacore was acquired by Yadro in 2019, i.e. Yadro is
its parent organization. And Yadro has been sanctioned.

Does anybody know the rule in this case? If a parent company is sanctioned
does that cascade to all its subsidiaries? I have no idea whether we can engage
with these patches or not.


Thanks,

Daniel


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-riscv/20250227144200.69270-1-saveliy.motov@syntacore.com/



On 2/26/25 11:03 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The following organisations appear on the US sanctions list:
> 
>    Yadro: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=41125
>    ISPRAS: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=50890
> 
> As a result maintainers interacting with such entities would face
> legal risk in a number of jurisdictions. To reduce the risk of
> inadvertent non-compliance remove entries from these organisations
> from the MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> Mark the pcf8574 system as orphaned until someone volunteers to step
> up as a maintainer. Add myself as a second reviewer to record/replay
> so I can help with what odd fixes I can.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Message-Id: <20250221161443.2321327-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 7 +++----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 1911949526..9cdfe19115 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2529,8 +2529,7 @@ F: hw/i2c/i2c_mux_pca954x.c
>   F: include/hw/i2c/i2c_mux_pca954x.h
>   
>   pcf8574
> -M: Dmitrii Sharikhin <d.sharikhin@yadro.com>
> -S: Maintained
> +S: Orphaned
>   F: hw/gpio/pcf8574.c
>   F: include/gpio/pcf8574.h
>   
> @@ -3627,10 +3626,10 @@ F: net/filter-mirror.c
>   F: tests/qtest/test-filter*
>   
>   Record/replay
> -M: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
>   R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> +R: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>   W: https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/record-replay
> -S: Supported
> +S: Odd Fixes
>   F: replay/*
>   F: block/blkreplay.c
>   F: net/filter-replay.c