Comment by mabbo
4 years ago
I think Greg KH would have been wise to add a time limit on this ban. Make it a 10-year block, for example, rather than one with no specific end-date.
Imagine what happens 25 years from now as some ground-breaking security research is being done at Minnesota, and they all groan: "Right, shoot, back in 2021 some dumb prof got us banned forever from submitting patches".
Is there a mechanism for University of Minnesota to appeal, someday? Even murders have parole hearings, eventually.
Presumably they could just talk to the maintainers at that time and have a reasonable discussion.
It isn't hard to get a gmail type address and submit from there.