From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267359AbUH1J2u (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:28:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267325AbUH1J12 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:27:28 -0400 Received: from isp-web250.isp-4u.de ([81.209.246.15]:13736 "HELO isp-web250.isp-4u.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267316AbUH1J0D (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:26:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:26:00 +0200 From: chris To: Linus Torvalds Cc: hch@infradead.org, rogers@isi.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Message-Id: <20040828112600.068ee813.chris@kaner.shacknet.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20040826233244.GA1284@isi.edu> <20040827004757.A26095@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds 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