Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:37:51 +0100 |
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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.
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