From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <prakashkc@gmx.de>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
Wouter Van Hemel <wouter-kernel@fort-knox.rave.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:46:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093625195.837.20.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412F337C.90206@gmx.de>
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:13, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> |>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
> |>If the maintainer wants it pulled, I feel it would be stealing to add it
> |>back into the kernel without his approval. Perhaps we could rewrite the
> |>driver and merge it with some other webcam driver projects.
> |
> |
> | This is the problem. It is far easier to _feel_ something
> | than to _do_ something.
>
> Intersting, that in the legal case, people are having a bad feeling, but
> in illegal case of doing reverse-engineering, drivers make it into the
> kernel...
>
Reverse engineering for interoperability purposes is legal even in the
USA.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 14:31 kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches city_hunter
2004-08-26 18:25 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <20040826190701.GA13310@kroah.com>
2004-08-26 23:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-26 23:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 0:21 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270917.47656.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:47 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 12:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 13:30 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-27 13:13 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-27 13:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 23:18 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-28 0:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-28 0:19 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-28 0:50 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 16:46 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-27 13:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 12:56 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <buok6vldx4l.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2004-08-27 12:38 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270845.38015.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:41 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-27 13:58 ` Wouter Van Hemel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-28 3:50 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 16:46 David McBride
2004-08-27 16:26 Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 17:01 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 17:34 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:09 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 18:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-27 20:47 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 21:18 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-28 16:22 ` Brian Beattie
2004-08-27 18:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-29 13:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-27 14:07 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 20:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 3:03 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-28 14:46 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 17:13 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-29 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 15:00 ` Thomas Winischhofer
[not found] <1092793392.17286.75.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <1092845135.8044.22.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <20040823221028.GB4694@kroah.com>
2004-08-24 22:58 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-24 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 14:02 ` Simon Oosthoek
2004-08-26 0:55 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 1:27 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 9:00 ` syrius.ml
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