From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265127AbUH0OJK (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:09:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265139AbUH0OJK (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:09:10 -0400 Received: from 213-229-38-66.static.adsl-line.inode.at ([213.229.38.66]:39130 "HELO mail.falke.at") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265127AbUH0OJH (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:09:07 -0400 Message-ID: <412F4008.4050700@winischhofer.net> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:07:04 +0200 From: Thomas Winischhofer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040819) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > >>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... > > >It's not a matter of legal/illegal, like Linus pointed out; it's a >matter of respecting Nemosoft's work and not stabbing him in the back. OK and if the authors of, say, SMP support say "back it out", Linux ends up without SMP support. Cool. GPL is GPL. Period. I think it's enough courtesy to say "Thank you". -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net *** http://www.winischhofer.net twini AT xfree86 DOT org