Hi Linus,

> This wasn't even remotely a gray area.  It's not worth discussing.

I hope you understood that my wish for transparency was not about
discussing if the patches should have gone in or not. It is about
discussing or at least stating which reasons we have for not accepting
patches. From the netdev maintainers reply, I couldn't understand if
being "uncomfortable" was because of personal or juristic reasons. As a
result, I was unsure what to do if such patches would have landed in my
subsystem. If it was personal, then I may or may not have a different
opinion, OK. If it was jurisitc, then it might be wise to follow their
expertise. Of course, I could have asked the netdev maintainers. But if
it is written right away, it makes things easier, or so I thought...

Regards,

   Wolfram