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by jpeeler 595 days ago
I find it strange that I haven't seen it written anywhere that suspects the entire commit message was probably drafted by legal. Sort of like a warrant canary where the message is in what's not said, they may have been recommended (just theorizing) to keep the commit brief and not be specific.
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Linus explicitly commented later that lawyers told them to do that, and refused to provide details of what exactly they said.