Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> But not only is Fedora not following the rules, >>> >> You changed the rules. You require a Signed-off-by:. Fedora can no more >> add a signed off by than you can. It's not their code nor Red Hat's code >> any more than they "own" the kernel because they pay someone to work on >> it. >> > > You're avoiding the point: they are shipping it, they are paying for (at > least some) development, and they seem to not even want to face the issue. > > Sign-offs aren't some new feature that took Red Hat people by surprise. > The "get it merged upstream first" didn't change in any way from it: it > just codified existing practice - of _course_ everybody expects copyrights > to be honored and clear. > > >> It's really simple: if you want to merge it *you* pull it and sign it off. >> If you aren't prepared to do that then ask why Fedora should, its not >> their code either. >> > > I'm not shipping it. They are. That's the difference. > > I realize that you have some emotional attachments to Red Hat, but ask > yourself (and answer honestly): what would you think if some random other > distro was packaging tens of thousands of lines of kernel code and not > apparently working at trying to get them upstream? > > Dave claims it's only been going on for a few months, but quite frankly, > we all know better. The nouveau kernel modules have been shipped for a lot > longer than just F12. > > And it's possible that other distros are doing the same thing. I happen to > know that Fedora does it (and has been doing it for at least a year), > because I happen to have an Intel development machine that runs Fedora and > was shipped by Intel with an nVidia card (and has a power supply that > craps out if you don't use several hundred watts of power, so I can't > change it to something more power-efficient - seriously). > Thanks for the rather lengthly explanation, but in case you missed what people are trying to say here..
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