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Kernel Driver Statement |
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Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules |
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We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source |
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Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have |
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repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and |
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the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, |
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stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development |
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model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux |
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community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their |
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customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. |
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Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and |
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shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to |
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adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source |
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kernel code. |
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We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for |
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today, have in the past, or will in the future. |
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- Dave Airlie |
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- Nick Andrew |
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- Jens Axboe |
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- Ralf Baechle |
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- Felipe Balbi |
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- Ohad Ben-Cohen |
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- Muli Ben-Yehuda |
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- Jiri Benc |
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- Arnd Bergmann |
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- Thomas Bogendoerfer |
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- Vitaly Bordug |
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- James Bottomley |
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- Josh Boyer |
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- Neil Brown |
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- Mark Brown |
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- David Brownell |
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- Michael Buesch |
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- Franck Bui-Huu |
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- Adrian Bunk |
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- François Cami |
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- Ralph Campbell |
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- Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino |
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- Mauro Carvalho Chehab |
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- Denis Cheng |
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- Jonathan Corbet |
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- Glauber Costa |
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- Alan Cox |
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- Magnus Damm |
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- Ahmed S. Darwish |
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- Robert P. J. Day |
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- Hans de Goede |
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- Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo |
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- Helge Deller |
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- Jean Delvare |
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- Mathieu Desnoyers |
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- Sven-Thorsten Dietrich |
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- Alexey Dobriyan |
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- Daniel Drake |
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- Alex Dubov |
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- Randy Dunlap |
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- Michael Ellerman |
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- Pekka Enberg |
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- Jan Engelhardt |
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- Mark Fasheh |
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- J. Bruce Fields |
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- Larry Finger |
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- Jeremy Fitzhardinge |
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- Mike Frysinger |
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- Kumar Gala |
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- Robin Getz |
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- Liam Girdwood |
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- Jan-Benedict Glaw |
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- Thomas Gleixner |
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- Brice Goglin |
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- Cyrill Gorcunov |
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- Andy Gospodarek |
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- Thomas Graf |
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- Krzysztof Halasa |
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- Harvey Harrison |
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- Stephen Hemminger |
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- Michael Hennerich |
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- Tejun Heo |
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- Benjamin Herrenschmidt |
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- Kristian Høgsberg |
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- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh |
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- Marcel Holtmann |
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- Mike Isely |
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- Takashi Iwai |
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- Olof Johansson |
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- Dave Jones |
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- Jesper Juhl |
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- Matthias Kaehlcke |
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- Kenji Kaneshige |
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- Jan Kara |
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- Jeremy Kerr |
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- Russell King |
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- Olaf Kirch |
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- Roel Kluin |
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- Hans-Jürgen Koch |
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- Auke Kok |
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- Peter Korsgaard |
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- Jiri Kosina |
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- Mariusz Kozlowski |
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- Clemens Ladisch |
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- Anders Larsen |
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- Grant Likely |
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- Yinghai Lu |
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- Tony Luck |
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- Paul Menage |
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- Thierry Merle |
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- Akinobu Mita |
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- Ingo Molnar |
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- James Morris |
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- Andrew Morton |
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- Paul Mundt |
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- Oleg Nesterov |
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- Luca Olivetti |
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- S.Çağlar Onur |
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- Pierre Ossman |
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- Keith Owens |
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- Evgeniy Polyakov |
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- Francois Romieu |
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- Amit Shah |
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- Sergei Shtylyov |
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- Kay Sievers |
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- Alexey Starikovskiy |
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- Alan Stern |
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- Timur Tabi |
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- Hirokazu Takata |
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- Eliezer Tamir |
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- Eugene Teo |
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- Doug Thompson |
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- FUJITA Tomonori |
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- Dmitry Torokhov |
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- Matthias Urlichs |
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- Geert Uytterhoeven |
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- Arjan van de Ven |
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- Ivo van Doorn |
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- Hans Verkuil |
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- Horst H. von Brand |
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- Dmitri Vorobiev |
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- Anton Vorontsov |
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- Matthew Wilcox |
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- Darrick J. Wong |
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- Chris Wright |
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- Bryan Wu |
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- Herbert Xu |
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