Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

Alan Cox
2004-08-29T15:44:00Z

On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 10:26, chris wrote:
> Absolutely. I can't see why it should be other than that unless people want
> Linux to become more unfriendly and more "ruled" like a big company.
> People contribute code for free, so they should be allowed to decide whenever
> they want it to be removed.

And what happens to the S/390 users the day IBM says "oh we've changed
our mind". If they want to be able to randomly revoke everyone rights
they should use an appropriately evil license and say so up front.

You can't change the deal later on.