Linux loses the Philips webcam driver

Posted Aug 31, 2004 17:05 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

http://kerneltrap.org /node/view/3747?PHPSESSID= ec07d8bff92b1faf36bdc14451a40476

On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 01:03, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

He is not sole author. Large parts of the code are based on other
authors work and simply copied from the standard framework. Please put
back the version without the hooks. It is useful to all sorts of people
in that form.

When the author GPL'd it he gave up his rights to remove it. Expecting
people to clean-room reverse engineer GPL source is a joke.

Alan

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On Gwe, 2004-08-27 at 20:29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So stop whining about it. The driver got removed because the author asked 
> for it. 

Please put it back, minus the hooks so the rest of the world can use it.
If not please remove every line of code I've even written because I
don't like the new attitude .. so ner..

Point made ? We can't go around throwing out drivers because the author
had a tantrum. Its also trivial to move the decompressor to user space
where it should be anyway. Similarly the driver is useful without the
binary stuff.

Or do we need a -ac tree again where this time -ac is "added camera" ;)

Alan