From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: chris <chris@kaner.shacknet.nu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
hch@infradead.org, 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 15:41:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093790500.27919.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828112600.068ee813.chris@kaner.shacknet.nu>
On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 10:26, chris wrote:
> Absolutely. I can't see why it should be other than that unless people want
> Linux to become more unfriendly and more "ruled" like a big company.
> People contribute code for free, so they should be allowed to decide whenever
> they want it to be removed.
And what happens to the S/390 users the day IBM says "oh we've changed
our mind". If they want to be able to randomly revoke everyone rights
they should use an appropriately evil license and say so up front.
You can't change the deal later on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-29 15:44 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 [this message]
2004-08-29 14:36 ` Alan Cox
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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