Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

Alan Cox
2004-08-29T15:40:16Z

On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 18:28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We remove drivers because the author _asks_ us to. If the person who wrote
> the code doesn't want the code in the kernel, that's a pretty big deal.

Then the author shouldn't have GPL'd it. Its one author who gave
irrevocable rights versus tens of thousands of users.