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XZ Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated, Drops "Jia Tan" As A Maintainer
Back in March were a set of patches to the Linux kernel's XZ embedded compression implementation with the project having switched from public domain to the BSD Zero Clause License along with other changes to update that in-tree code
Back in March were a set of patches to the Linux kernel's XZ embedded compression implementation with the project having switched from public domain to the BSD Zero Clause License along with other changes to update that in-tree code. Over the patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list back in March by Lasse Collin, the v2 changes include now removing Jia Tan from the XZ maintainers for the kernel: "Jia Tan" being the one that baked the backdoor into the upstream XZ codebase and carrying out the nefarious behavior. The new patches also have some mother minor changes: v2: - Omit Jia Tan from MAINTAINERS and commit messages.
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