Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

From: Wouter Van Hemel
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 08:48:48 EST


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:

Intersting, that in the legal case, people are having a bad feeling, but
in illegal case of doing reverse-engineering, drivers make it into the
kernel...


It's not a matter of legal/illegal, like Linus pointed out; it's a matter of respecting Nemosoft's work and not stabbing him in the back.

Also note that this driver had some Philips support in the form of information - sadly enough, partly under NDA.

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