Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch_at_infradead.org)
Date: 08/27/04

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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

    On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:03:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > 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.

    Umm, just because he's piised off we shouldn't removed support for hardware.
    it's not like the driver suddenly stops from working because it's unmaintained.

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