[ANNOUNCE] Suspending Patrick McHardy as coreteam member

[ANNOUNCE] Suspending Patrick McHardy as coreteam member

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

The netfilter project regrets to have to suspend its core team member
Patrick McHardy from the core team. This is a grave step, definitely
the first in the projects history, and it is not one we take lightly.

Over many months, severe allegations have been brought forward against
the style of his license enforcement activities on parts of the
netfilter software he wrote.  With respect to privacy, we will not
publicly disclose the content of those allegations.

Despite many attempts by us to reach him, Patrick has been unable or
unwilling to comment on those allegations or defend against the
allegations.

The netfilter project does not have first-hand evidence. But given the
consistent allegations from various trusted sources, and in the
absence of any response from Patrick, we feel it is neccessary to
suspend him until further notice.

We'd like to stress that we do not take any sides, and did not
"convict" Patrick of anything.  He continues to be welcome in the
project as soon as he is be able to address the allegations and/or
co-sign the "principles" [1] in terms of any future enforcement
activities.

[1] http://www.netfilter.org/files/statement.pdf