Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@mocm.de>]

>>>>> "Koos" == Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen@xs4all.nl> writes:

    Koos> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    >> >
    >> > It's not up to him to decide. He can step down from his
    >> maintainership, > but he can't force the driver to be removed.
    >> 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.

    Koos> Doubtfully of course. I maintain a small OSS applicatione
    Koos> and although it sucks, it wouldn't be there where it is now
    Koos> w/o input from others.  Some are better at writing code,
    Koos> others making patches and others complaing why XYZ doesn't
    Koos> work. But all do contribute. Imho it would be very unpolite
    Koos> to them to just say, thanks for everything but this app is
    Koos> dead and btw. I removed all references to it.  Please play
    Koos> be the rules, GPL is GPL period (and don't make this a weak
    Koos> spot for OSS by being soft).

    >> Of course if some new maintainer shows up and decides to infer
    >> how the device worked by looking at the original open-source
    >> code, that's also clearly fine.  I don't want people to play
    >> lawyer. Honoring peoples rights to the code they write is more
    >> important than just the law.

    Koos> I'm sure this will resolve one day (in the meantime, I've
    Koos> put what I had on my hd on
    Koos> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/pwc.html, please alert if the
    Koos> md5sum are incorrect for those having this somewhere too).

Under what license were the binary modules distributed ?

Marcus

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