From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267588AbUH0TgF (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:36:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267582AbUH0Tdv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:33:51 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:12202 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267548AbUH0T3u (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:29:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:29:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Albert Cahalan cc: linux-kernel mailing list , pmarques@grupopie.com, greg@kroah.com, nemosoft@smcc.demon.nl, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: pwc+pwcx is not illegal In-Reply-To: <1093634283.431.6370.camel@cube> Message-ID: References: <1093634283.431.6370.camel@cube> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Can we drop this straw-man discussion now? We don't do binary hooks in the kernel. Full stop. It's a gray area legally (and whatever you say won't change that), but it's absolutely not gray from a distribution standpoint. AND IT WASN'T EVER THE REASON FOR REMOVING THE DRIVER IN THE FIRST PLACE! So stop whining about it. The driver got removed because the author asked for it. Linus