Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:26:00 +0200 | From | chris <> | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> I don't want people to play lawyer. Honoring peoples rights to the code > they write is more important than just the law.
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.
-- Christian Fromme
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