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Over the past years there have been many "misunderstandings" and "confusion" as to who is, and is not, allowed early access to the changes created by the members of the embargoed hardware issue teams working on a specific problem. The current process, while it does work, is "difficult" for many companies to understand and agree with. Because of this, there has been numerous attempts by many companies to work around the process by lies, subterfuge, and other side channels sometimes involving unsuspecting lawyers. Cut all of that out, and put the responsibility of distributing code on the silicon vendor affected, as they already have legal agreements in place that cover this type of distribution. When this distribution happens, the developers involved MUST be notified of this happening, to be kept aware of the situation at all times. The wording here has been hashed out by many different companies and lawyers involved in the process, as well as community members and everyone now agrees that the proposed change here should work better than what is currently happening. This change has been approved by a review from a large number of different open source legal members, representing the companies involved in this process. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024073035-bagel-vertigo-e0dd@gregkh Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Co-developed-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org> Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>