From: chris <chris@kaner.shacknet.nu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, rogers@isi.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:26:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040828112600.068ee813.chris@kaner.shacknet.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408261700320.2304@ppc970.osdl.org>
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
chris at kaner.shacknet.nu
PGP-Pubkey: http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~cfrom001/pgp/index.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-28 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 23:32 Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-26 23:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 9:48 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 17:37 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 18:55 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-27 22:49 ` Marek Habersack
2004-08-27 23:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-08-28 17:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-27 23:04 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 21:59 ` non-i386 architectures (Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)) Daniel Egger
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-27 19:12 ` Alex Belits
2004-08-27 21:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 22:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-27 21:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-28 0:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-28 0:53 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28 10:29 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-08-29 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-28 9:26 ` chris [this message]
2004-08-29 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 14:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-29 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 19:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-30 9:35 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 10:14 Koos Vriezen
2004-08-27 11:03 ` Marcus Metzler
2004-08-28 2:16 lkml-mail
2004-08-28 5:30 ` Greg KH
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