From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268000AbUH2OnG (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:43:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267979AbUH2OnF (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:43:05 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:62080 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267974AbUH2Omr (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:42:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers From: Alan Cox To: Oliver Neukum Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kenneth Lavrsen , Jesper Juhl , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200408280113.27530.oliver@neukum.org> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040827215445.01c4ddb0@inet.uni2.dk> <6.1.2.0.2.20040827233253.01c36210@inet.uni2.dk> <200408280113.27530.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1093786799.27934.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:00 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 00:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Keeping drivers against the wishes of the authors in the tree would > be very troubling for the future. I can assure you that no maintainer > will lightly pull a driver in this way. Then the kernel community is no longer fit to use my code. So you should remove everything I've written from Linus kernel too. I'll maintain my own kernel. Oh gosh, look I've just crippled Linus tree and stolen his project. Thats *WHY* you can't just rip drivers out. A license was granted, for ever. You can certainly remove him from maintainers, and if he insists from the author credits. Alan