Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 18:28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We remove drivers because the author _asks_ us to. If the person who wrote 
> the code doesn't want the code in the kernel, that's a pretty big deal.

Then the author shouldn't have GPL'd it. Its one author who gave
irrevocable rights versus tens of thousands of users.

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