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Message-ID: <20111006052521.GA6622@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:25:21 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:50:08PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
> > I assume the worst case, unless given documents proving otherwise. The
> > commit message is not particularly verbose.
> >
> Just thinking about it, but even if lawyers have been involved, this
> has been done, unless error of my part, behind closed doors, without
> any public records, so I'd tempted to ask "who paid those lawyers?",
> "what was the qualification of those lawyers?", "what was the interest
> of those lawyers?" and "what was the interest of those who paid the
> lawyers?".
> 
> Moreover, the commit message's subject states "We can not allow
> anonymous contributions to the kernel", however it fails to describe
> who's behind "we".

*plonk*
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