Re: [PATCH 2/4] Documentation/process: describe relaxing disclosing party NDAs

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Sep 29 2019 - 06:42:59 EST


On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 09:09:18AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/11/19 8:44 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > Intel had months of review time for this document before this was
> > published. Your lawyers had it and never objected to this lack of
> > inclusion at all, and explictitly said that the document as written was
> > fine with them. So I'm sorry, but it is much too late to add something
> > like this to the document at this point in time.
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I'll personally take 100% of the blame for this patch. I intended for
> it to show our commitment to work *with* our colleagues in the
> community, not to dictate demands. Please consider this as you would
> any other patch: a humble suggestion to address what I see as a gap.
>
> Just to be clear: this addition came from me and only me. It did not
> come from any Intel lawyers and does not represent any kind of objection
> to the process. Intel's support for this process is unconditional and
> not dependent on any of these patches.

Ok, thanks for the clarification. It looked like this came from Intel
based on the comments you made on the other patches in this series. My
confusion, sorry.

I think that Thomas's rewording here makes more sense, and you seem to
agree, so I'll go queue that up now.

thanks,

greg k-h