On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:59 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ben Collins <benmcollin...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:53:54 -0400 > >> Also, if there's a patch that makes my hardware work, but I can't >> use it because (even though it's open source licensed) the author >> doesn't want it in mainline, then that is effectively squatting. > > This is called respecting the wishes of the author of the code, I'm > sorry if this is a foreign concept for you. I'm sorry, I thought we were working on open source projects here. If the code isn't encumbered by patents, legal issues or technical problems, and is licensed compatible with the kernel, I just thought it was fair game. -- Servergy : http://www.servergy.com/ SwissDisk : http://www.swissdisk.com/ Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ My Blog : http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
