Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750815AbWHFQlX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:41:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751287AbWHFQlX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:41:23 -0400 Received: from natreg.rzone.de ([81.169.145.183]:60295 "EHLO natreg.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815AbWHFQlX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:41:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:40:13 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Theodore Tso , Shem Multinymous Cc: Andrew Morton , rlove@rlove.org, khali@linux-fr.org, gregkh@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] thinkpad_ec: New driver for ThinkPad embedded controller access Message-ID: <20060806164013.GA7637@aepfle.de> References: <11548492171301-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> <11548492242899-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> <20060806005613.01c5a56a.akpm@osdl.org> <41840b750608060256g1a7bb9c3s843d3ac08e512d63@mail.gmail.com> <20060806030749.ab49c887.akpm@osdl.org> <41840b750608060344p59293ce0xc75edfbd791b23c@mail.gmail.com> <20060806145551.GC30009@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060806145551.GC30009@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 978 Lines: 21 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/