Recently, some kernel contributors have been removed from the MAINTAINERS file revoking credit to what they have done, but their work has been preserved which violates FOSS principles and ideology(I am trying to hold it and keep it concise here). The attached patch reverts this commit (6e90b675cf942e50c70e8394dfb5862975c3b3b2). With the forthcoming stable release of kernel 6.12, please consider this patch for our gentoo-sources package when the first 6.12 series kernel makes it into portage and until mainline developers return to sanity(if ever). Thank you! Reproducible: Always Expected Results: The credit for any contributor to free software project should be preserved no matter the political situation in the world. Free software should be above governments forever.
Created attachment 908081 [details, diff] revert-US-gov-compliance-patch
I don't think it makes sense for us to carry such a patch. Their work remains in the git repository (including attribution). Mike, ofc feel free to reopen if you disagree.
You can apply any patches you want locally: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches
I am already doing it, the purpose of this bug report is to extend to gentoo-users, not myself in specific.
I should say, I don't think it's only not our place to do this, but it would be actively confusing. Suppose a user runs scripts/get_maintainers.pl. It will return outdated or wrong results to report a bug.
Just adding my thoughts. It would be incorrect to apply this patch as they are no longer considered MAINTAINERS by upstream. It is not our place to decide who is or is not listed in that file, regardless of the reasoning.
I agree, is not our place to decide Linux kernel maintainers.
