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Here the issue is that he was an official contributor as part of an IBM team working on this driver for IBM hardware... and that IBM decided they did not want him to do this anymore. He then changed the maintainer file to point to his personal email.

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Which would indicate he is still available _for free_ to do the duty of reviewing the patches.

Good open source citizen, if you ask me.

Setting up to do it outside of work as a "hobby" might still be being a good open source citizen, but it doesn't mean that IBM may not have some legitimate concerns. If there's e.g. a bad interpersonal situation on the team, IBM might not want him to interact with other members of that group anymore. Or, since he's likely handled proprietary IBM information relating to that hardware, ongoing work on the subsystem outside of an official capacity could be problematic.

Where'd you get that context from?

His commit history.

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