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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 09:55:06 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
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On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:38:15AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:08:34AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:39:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > Bringing the patch to a public mailing list is a waste of time until
> > > > there's a reliable description of the problem you're trying to solve.
> > > 
> > > Please see the original patch.  It does describes what it is doing.
> > 
> > "What", but not "Why".  Which is only acceptable in GNU changelogs ;-)
> 
> ;-)
> 
> > Matthew Wilcox			Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
> Given your affiliation, you should have access to people with whom
> you can have a meaningful conversation on the non-technical issues,
> but without putting the Linux community at risk.

Indeed I do have access to lawyers.  But what use is that?  I could
presumably get an opinion for myself that I would not then be able to
share outside of Intel.

Can't you get the SFLC to issue a public legal opinion for you?  Or maybe
the Linux Foundation?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."