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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
