On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:31:32AM -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > I offered to, but there are other maintainers. I > > mostly offered to prove > > Linus was being totally two faced about it. When he > > removed the driver at > > the original authors request I asked him to remove > > all my code too because > > his approach was offensive to me. He refused. > > > Greg and Linus were trying to be polite about it. In > general we shouldnt be having code despite authors > requests inside the kernel. Authors sign away the right to take their toys home when they want to throw a tantrum when they submit code under the GPL. *nothing* stops someone else taking the last version of the GPL'd code and taking over maintenance. It's the same deal as if someone decided that something was going to be changed from GPL to proprietary. (See OpenGFS history for an example of this in action). Consider it the anti-loony clause of the GPL. Dave
