Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds_at_osdl.org)
Date: 08/27/04

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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

    On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    >
    > It's not up to him to decide. He can step down from his maintainership,
    > but he can't force the driver to be removed.

    Yes and no. From a legal standpoint you're right. However, we should also
    be polite. If he's the sole author, and he asks for it, I think it's
    reasonable to honor his wishes.

    Of course if some new maintainer shows up and decides to infer how the
    device worked by looking at the original open-source code, that's also
    clearly fine.

    I don't want people to play lawyer. Honoring peoples rights to the code
    they write is more important than just the law.

                    Linus
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