Re: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers

asterix the gual
2004-08-31T05:04:57Z

One more to Gregkh's Q&A

Q. Is there anyother way to support the binary only driver?
A. Yes. You can maintain a separate linux-pwc tree with the necessary hooks :)

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:00 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 00:13, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Keeping drivers against the wishes of the authors in the tree would
> > be very troubling for the future. I can assure you that no maintainer
> > will lightly pull a driver in this way.
>
> Then the kernel community is no longer fit to use my code. So you should
> remove everything I've written from Linus kernel too. I'll maintain my
> own kernel.
>
> Oh gosh, look I've just crippled Linus tree and stolen his project.
> Thats *WHY* you can't just rip drivers out. A license was granted, for
> ever. You can certainly remove him from maintainers, and if he insists
> from the author credits.
>
> Alan
>
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