Not surprising to anyone who had to consider these sanctions. But not everyone does. By not explaining from the beginning, they left the field wide open to drama and Russian trolls.

> all of the Linux infrastructure and a lot of its maintainers are in the US and we can't ignore the requirements of US law.

> If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.