Here is Linus's comment
Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything. And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing. If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.
And about whether or not he is under an NDA
No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them
I think this is a shortsighted and extremely ill-informed decision.
The "compliance requirments" have still not been explained at all.
Why aren't Americans and israelis being removed from the maintainer list for their active part in a genocide?
But that is my opinion and is all I will say
Probably because there are no sanctions against them that his government is cracking down on? I don't think he wants to get involved in politics so much as stay out of prison.
Torvalds is finnish. Finns are generally weird and russophobic drunkards.