Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:40:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] thinkpad_ec: New driver for ThinkPad embedded controller access |
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On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:40:13 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> 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?
I have a personal line, and that is when the patch is "substantial". (This line is only relevant when someone forgot to add the Signed-off-by: and I'm wondering whether to ask them to send one).
And I'd say this patch series _is_ substantial because it pokes at registers which might be described in confidential/NDA'ed documentation, or in ways which might be derived from $OTHER_OS. - 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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