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The discussion around this has been physically painful to read. From what I gather, the delisted maintainers are people on sanction lists, i.e. somehow connected to the Russian state, and they have been given the opportunity to prove their innocence by providing some (admittedly unspecified) documents to Linus and the Linux Foundation.
Judging by Linus's updated comment in that article there are legal concerns involved, as the Linux Foundation is a US-based organization. Though even if they weren't, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.
Meanwhile Linus is fine with supporting USA DOD and making a profit from it. Funny how morality changes when you introduce other interests... It's a purely business move and has nothing to do with ethics.
Not only that, he's likely using the whole "I'm Finnish" thing as an excuse. According to Wikipedia at least, he's now an American citizen living in -of all places, Silicon Valley.
I mean, it's not like he's going to say "I've got a few mil in redhat stocks, and they signed a new $800+ mil deal with the DoD 2 months ago, so we've got to clean house"