From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@isi.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:36:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093790181.27934.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408261700320.2304@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 01:03, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yes and no. From a legal standpoint you're right. However, we should also
> be polite. If he's the sole author, and he asks for it, I think it's
> reasonable to honor his wishes.
He is not sole author. Large parts of the code are based on other
authors work and simply copied from the standard framework. Please put
back the version without the hooks. It is useful to all sorts of people
in that form.
When the author GPL'd it he gave up his rights to remove it. Expecting
people to clean-room reverse engineer GPL source is a joke.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-29 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 23:32 Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-26 23:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 9:48 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 17:37 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 18:55 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-27 22:49 ` Marek Habersack
2004-08-27 23:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-08-28 17:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-27 23:04 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 21:59 ` non-i386 architectures (Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)) Daniel Egger
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-27 19:12 ` Alex Belits
2004-08-27 21:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 22:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-27 21:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-28 0:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-28 0:53 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28 10:29 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-08-29 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-28 9:26 ` chris
2004-08-29 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 14:36 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-29 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-29 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 19:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-30 9:35 ` Craig Milo Rogers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-27 10:14 Koos Vriezen
2004-08-27 11:03 ` Marcus Metzler
2004-08-28 2:16 lkml-mail
2004-08-28 5:30 ` Greg KH
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