Ignoring author's explicit wish

Posted Sep 2, 2004 15:08 UTC (Thu) by kamil (guest, #3802)
In reply to: Ignoring author's explicit wish by smoogen
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

I basically agree with what you're saying.

The only problem is, that what you're saying is off-topic for this particular thread. Go read the posting #100434 I was replying to. I basically disagreed with the notion that if an author of a GPL software "withdraws" it, we should all obey. It might be a polite thing to do, but polite is not necessarily the same as right.

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Ignoring author's explicit wish

Posted Sep 2, 2004 20:05 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

He was also the maintainer of a device driver, and he wanted a change to it applied. As his change doesn't cause problems for any other code, it gets applied, obviously. If someone else wants to take over maintainership, they can, and, since the old driver was under the GPL, they can base their driver on it. They should probably name it something different, though, because it won't behave as users expect (i.e., pwcx won't load). In fact, they should arrange it such that decompression can be done in userspace like is generally considered correct.