| 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |