From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267921AbUH0IoG (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:44:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269146AbUH0IoF (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:44:05 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:42250 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267921AbUH0Iny (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:43:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:43:46 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Craig Milo Rogers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Message-ID: <20040827094346.B29407@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Craig Milo Rogers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040826233244.GA1284@isi.edu> <20040827004757.A26095@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@osdl.org on Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:03:42PM -0700 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:03:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Umm, just because he's piised off we shouldn't removed support for hardware. it's not like the driver suddenly stops from working because it's unmaintained.