Comment by belval

I understand the point that you are making, but you have to look at it from the optics of the maintainer. The email made it clear that they submitted an official complaint to the ethics board and they didn't do anything. In that spirit it effectively means that any patch coming from that university could be vulnerability injection misrepresented as legitimate patches.

The Linux kernel has limited resources and if one university lack of oversight is causing the whole process to be stretched tinner than it already is then a ban seems like a valid solution.