Ignoring author's explicit wish

Ignoring author's explicit wish

Posted Sep 2, 2004 20:05 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Ignoring author's explicit wish by kamil
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

He was also the maintainer of a device driver, and he wanted a change to it applied. As his change doesn't cause problems for any other code, it gets applied, obviously. If someone else wants to take over maintainership, they can, and, since the old driver was under the GPL, they can base their driver on it. They should probably name it something different, though, because it won't behave as users expect (i.e., pwcx won't load). In fact, they should arrange it such that decompression can be done in userspace like is generally considered correct.

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