Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:36:22 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 01:03, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes and no. From a legal standpoint you're right. However, we should also > be polite. If he's the sole author, and he asks for it, I think it's > reasonable to honor his wishes.
He is not sole author. Large parts of the code are based on other authors work and simply copied from the standard framework. Please put back the version without the hooks. It is useful to all sorts of people in that form.
When the author GPL'd it he gave up his rights to remove it. Expecting people to clean-room reverse engineer GPL source is a joke.
Alan
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