I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. — https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

To be fair, Torvalds and Kroah-Hartman are essentially corporate employees.
Following orders, so that they can get on with the stuff they like doing.
The fork in linux will continue...
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