On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:30:04AM -0700, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> On 04.08.26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > On 04.08.26, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > > o USB: rip out the whole pwc driver as the author wishes to have don
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> At no point was it a legal argument. In fact, since none of the people
> involved were layers, you shouldn't even try to _make_ it a legal
> arguments.
Before somebody points out that I do legal arguments too, I just wish to
say
- sometimes you
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> On 04.08.26, Greg KH wrote:
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > o USB: rip out the whole pwc driver as the author wishes to have done
> > o USB: rip the pwc decompressor hooks out of the kernel, as they are a GPL
> > violation
>
> The decompres
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Eric St-Laurent wrote:
>
> I understand the need to remove the decompressors hooks, i can live with
> the inconveniences for the time being.
I think everybody can understand that part.
> However, i think that the GPL pwc driver should stay in, regardless of
> the author op
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 22:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> In this case, special-purpose hooks for a binary-only module are a no-no.
>
> Leaning on the binary driver vendor is the best approach although speaking
> realistically, someone needs to get down and implement a driver which uses
> the normal k
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 22:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> In this case, special-purpose hooks for a binary-only module are a no-no.
I understand the need to remove the decompressors hooks, i can live with
the inconveniences for the time being.
However, i think that the GPL pwc driver should stay in,
Eric St-Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a owner of two webcams that uses this driver, i hate seeing this be
> removed.
Well yeah. Everybody hates seeing functionality which is useful to people
go away. But the license has served us well thus far and if we're to go
bending further than
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:52, Greg KH wrote:
> There are a number of USB OTG driver additions here, firmware updates
> for the edgeport drivers, lots of bugfixes, shrinkage of the struct urb
> structure, and sadly, the removal of the PWC video camera driver (as per
> the driver author's wishes, it
