On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:42:14AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:41:00PM -0400, Stephan Uphoff wrote: > >>Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >>>On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:54:12AM -0600, Coleman Kane wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 17:03 +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Stephan Uphoff wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>>ups 2007-04-21 14:17:30 UTC > >>>>>> > >>>>>> FreeBSD src repository > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Modified files: > >>>>>> sys/amd64/amd64 pmap.c > >>>>>> sys/i386/i386 pmap.c > >>>>>> Log: > >>>>>> Modify TLB invalidation handling. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Reviewed by: alc@, peter@ > >>>>>> MFC after: 1 week > >>>>>> > >>>>>Could you be a bit more verbose what changed here and why it > >>>>>was done? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>I agree. I would really like to know what the modification accomplishes. > >>>> > >>>Alas, we don't live in an ideal world. If we did, our commit > >>>messages would always follow the well-known guideline: > >>> > >>>0. Tell the essence of the change. > >>>1. Give the reason for the change. > >>>2. Explain the change unless it's trivial. > >>> > >>> > >>In the ideal world there are no NDAs :-) > > > >Was the change based on a document under NDA? Then this case raises > >an interesting question: to what extent an open source developer > >is allowed to explain his code that was based on a document under > >NDA? Of course, it should depend on the NDA, but I suspect that a > >typical NDA requires a lawyer to interpret it unambiguously (I've > >never signed one by myself), and an overcautious lawyer would say > >that the open source code itself violates the NDA because anybody > >can RTFS. :-) > > > > Wow, that was painful to read. NDAs that specifically allow source > code licensing and distribution are quite common. They even get written > and reviewed by lawyers! =-)
It's a good news! But what about explaining the code to the public? - Mr. Developer, why does it take an ugly hack to make the device work? - Can't tell ya, I'm under NDA. ;-) -- Yar _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
