Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers.

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:

> On Sun, 26 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >> Where do you get off delete copyrights?
> >> GPL permits changing it does not give you the right to steal, lie, cheat,
> >> defraud, other peoples work.  However I should not expect anything of
> >> honor from a person of your high morals.  I know you want to rewrite the
> >> past to make it so I and other never existed, but you are pathetic.
> >
> >I don't delete copyrights, where applicable. However, in this case, none
> >of the original code stayed, not a single line - I first wrote a spec
> >based on the old driver and then wrote a new driver from scratch based
> >on that spec. So, you really don't have a copyright on the new Artop
> >driver, sorry.
> 
> Vojtech,
> 
> It would be a lot better if you had acknowledged the prior input of the
> original writers in the source; I accept that if you write a new driver you
> are entitled to claim (C) on it, but to acknowledge the source of the
> specification would have been much fairer to the others whose hard work you
> have used.

Yes, I agree. That's why there is:

 *  Based on the work of:
 *     Andre Hedrick

in the new driver.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs