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- Kernel Driver Statement
- -----------------------
- Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
- ==========================================
- We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source
- Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have
- repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and
- the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness,
- stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development
- model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux
- community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their
- customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors.
- Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and
- shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to
- adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source
- kernel code.
- We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for
- today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- - Dave Airlie
- - Nick Andrew
- - Jens Axboe
- - Ralf Baechle
- - Felipe Balbi
- - Ohad Ben-Cohen
- - Muli Ben-Yehuda
- - Jiri Benc
- - Arnd Bergmann
- - Thomas Bogendoerfer
- - Vitaly Bordug
- - James Bottomley
- - Josh Boyer
- - Neil Brown
- - Mark Brown
- - David Brownell
- - Michael Buesch
- - Franck Bui-Huu
- - Adrian Bunk
- - François Cami
- - Ralph Campbell
- - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
- - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
- - Denis Cheng
- - Jonathan Corbet
- - Glauber Costa
- - Alan Cox
- - Magnus Damm
- - Ahmed S. Darwish
- - Robert P. J. Day
- - Hans de Goede
- - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
- - Helge Deller
- - Jean Delvare
- - Mathieu Desnoyers
- - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
- - Alexey Dobriyan
- - Daniel Drake
- - Alex Dubov
- - Randy Dunlap
- - Michael Ellerman
- - Pekka Enberg
- - Jan Engelhardt
- - Mark Fasheh
- - J. Bruce Fields
- - Larry Finger
- - Jeremy Fitzhardinge
- - Mike Frysinger
- - Kumar Gala
- - Robin Getz
- - Liam Girdwood
- - Jan-Benedict Glaw
- - Thomas Gleixner
- - Brice Goglin
- - Cyrill Gorcunov
- - Andy Gospodarek
- - Thomas Graf
- - Krzysztof Halasa
- - Harvey Harrison
- - Stephen Hemminger
- - Michael Hennerich
- - Tejun Heo
- - Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- - Kristian Høgsberg
- - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
- - Marcel Holtmann
- - Mike Isely
- - Takashi Iwai
- - Olof Johansson
- - Dave Jones
- - Jesper Juhl
- - Matthias Kaehlcke
- - Kenji Kaneshige
- - Jan Kara
- - Jeremy Kerr
- - Russell King
- - Olaf Kirch
- - Roel Kluin
- - Hans-Jürgen Koch
- - Auke Kok
- - Peter Korsgaard
- - Jiri Kosina
- - Aaro Koskinen
- - Mariusz Kozlowski
- - Greg Kroah-Hartman
- - Michael Krufky
- - Aneesh Kumar
- - Clemens Ladisch
- - Christoph Lameter
- - Gunnar Larisch
- - Anders Larsen
- - Grant Likely
- - John W. Linville
- - Yinghai Lu
- - Tony Luck
- - Pavel Machek
- - Matt Mackall
- - Paul Mackerras
- - Roland McGrath
- - Patrick McHardy
- - Kyle McMartin
- - Paul Menage
- - Thierry Merle
- - Eric Miao
- - Akinobu Mita
- - Ingo Molnar
- - James Morris
- - Andrew Morton
- - Paul Mundt
- - Oleg Nesterov
- - Luca Olivetti
- - S.Çağlar Onur
- - Pierre Ossman
- - Keith Owens
- - Venkatesh Pallipadi
- - Nick Piggin
- - Nicolas Pitre
- - Evgeniy Polyakov
- - Richard Purdie
- - Mike Rapoport
- - Sam Ravnborg
- - Gerrit Renker
- - Stefan Richter
- - David Rientjes
- - Luis R. Rodriguez
- - Stefan Roese
- - Francois Romieu
- - Rami Rosen
- - Stephen Rothwell
- - Maciej W. Rozycki
- - Mark Salyzyn
- - Yoshinori Sato
- - Deepak Saxena
- - Holger Schurig
- - Amit Shah
- - Yoshihiro Shimoda
- - Sergei Shtylyov
- - Kay Sievers
- - Sebastian Siewior
- - Rik Snel
- - Jes Sorensen
- - Alexey Starikovskiy
- - Alan Stern
- - Timur Tabi
- - Hirokazu Takata
- - Eliezer Tamir
- - Eugene Teo
- - Doug Thompson
- - FUJITA Tomonori
- - Dmitry Torokhov
- - Marcelo Tosatti
- - Steven Toth
- - Theodore Tso
- - Matthias Urlichs
- - Geert Uytterhoeven
- - Arjan van de Ven
- - Ivo van Doorn
- - Rik van Riel
- - Wim Van Sebroeck
- - Hans Verkuil
- - Horst H. von Brand
- - Dmitri Vorobiev
- - Anton Vorontsov
- - Daniel Walker
- - Johannes Weiner
- - Harald Welte
- - Matthew Wilcox
- - Dan J. Williams
- - Darrick J. Wong
- - David Woodhouse
- - Chris Wright
- - Bryan Wu
- - Rafael J. Wysocki
- - Herbert Xu
- - Vlad Yasevich
- - Peter Zijlstra
- - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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