Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:40:13 +0200 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] thinkpad_ec: New driver for ThinkPad embedded controller access |
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:55:51AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:44:02PM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> > Can you please be more specific? What purpose does this exclusion > > serve, that would be realistically achieved otherwise? You already > > have a GPL license from the author, and a way to contact and uniquely > > identify the author. > > For legal reasons, we need a way to to contact and identify the author > in the real world, not just in cyberspace, and a pseudonym doesn't > meet that requirement.
In that context, even an anonymous mailer like gmail and the like is questionable. But, I'm sure one get a domain with faked address data in the whois database. Where would you draw the line? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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