As part of the response to last year’s UMN
fiasco, Kees Cook and a group of collaborators have put together a set
of guidelines for researchers who are studying how the kernel-development
community (or any development community, really) works. That document has
just been merged into
the mainline as part
of the 5.18 merge window.

This document seeks to clarify what the Linux kernel community
considers acceptable and non-acceptable practices when conducting
such research. At the very least, such research and related
activities should follow standard research ethics rules.

Source: LWN.net – Guidelines for research on the kernel community