[llvm] [llvm][utils] Remove source owner check from merge-release-pr script (PR #176949)

[Cullen Rhodes via llvm-commits]

https://github.com/c-rhodes created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/176949

This check prevents landing PRs from branches on llvm/llvm-project which is a thing now.

>From d062223ddc3ab183604759841888140bf6846e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cullen Rhodes <cullen.rhodes at arm.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:47:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [llvm][utils] Remove source owner check from merge-release-pr
 script

This check prevents landing PRs from branches on llvm/llvm-project which
is a thing now.
---
 llvm/utils/release/merge-release-pr.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llvm/utils/release/merge-release-pr.py b/llvm/utils/release/merge-release-pr.py
index ee908e00d06ba..86f68968fd3dc 100755
--- a/llvm/utils/release/merge-release-pr.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/release/merge-release-pr.py
@@ -152,12 +152,6 @@ def load_pr_data(self):
             print("The target repo is NOT llvm-project, check the PR!")
             sys.exit(1)
 
-        if sowner == "llvm":
-            print(
-                "The source owner should never be github.com/llvm, double check the PR!"
-            )
-            sys.exit(1)
-
     def validate_pr(self):
         print(f"> Handling PR {self.args.pr} - {self.prdata['title']}")
         print(f">   {self.prdata['url']}")