Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

[Linus Torvalds]

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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