On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:25:05AM +1000, tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > > Well if they are obvious, please get us someone who _can_ discuss them > > with us. Preferably a lawyer that can explain why the patch is > > neccessary. > > I am trying to get that to happen, and I do realise that getting a > lawyer to publicly explain the situation would be really > worthwhile. Unfortunately lawyers are (mostly) very shy of making > public statements of this type, because the legal consequences of > making these statements can be non-trivial. Practical consequences of establishing that kind of precedent (applying a patch on the grounds of nothing but vague references to possibly legal problems, with author explicitly refusing to explain exact reasons) can also be non-trivial... And I'm not sure that it won't have legal ones as well, while we are at it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
