Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

From: chris
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 04:31:53 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't want people to play lawyer. Honoring peoples rights to the code
> they write is more important than just the law.

Absolutely. I can't see why it should be other than that unless people want
Linux to become more unfriendly and more "ruled" like a big company.
People contribute code for free, so they should be allowed to decide whenever
they want it to be removed.

--
Christian Fromme

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