From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266574AbUH0Qqn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:46:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266591AbUH0Qqn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:46:43 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:35516 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266585AbUH0Qqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:46:35 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches From: Lee Revell To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Wouter Van Hemel , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <412F337C.90206@gmx.de> References: <33193.151.37.215.244.1093530681.squirrel@webmail.azzurra.org> <200408270917.47656.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <200408271604.35400.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <412F337C.90206@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1093625195.837.20.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:46:36 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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