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3 | Kernel Driver Statement |
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6 | Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules | |
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10 | We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source | |
11 | Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have | |
12 | repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and | |
13 | the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, | |
14 | stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development | |
15 | model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux | |
16 | community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their | |
17 | customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. | |
18 | Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and | |
19 | shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to | |
20 | adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source | |
21 | kernel code. | |
22 | ||
23 | We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for | |
24 | today, have in the past, or will in the future. | |
25 | ||
26 | - Dave Airlie | |
27 | - Nick Andrew | |
28 | - Jens Axboe | |
29 | - Ralf Baechle | |
30 | - Felipe Balbi | |
31 | - Ohad Ben-Cohen | |
32 | - Muli Ben-Yehuda | |
33 | - Jiri Benc | |
34 | - Arnd Bergmann | |
35 | - Thomas Bogendoerfer | |
36 | - Vitaly Bordug | |
37 | - James Bottomley | |
38 | - Josh Boyer | |
39 | - Neil Brown | |
40 | - Mark Brown | |
41 | - David Brownell | |
42 | - Michael Buesch | |
43 | - Franck Bui-Huu | |
44 | - Adrian Bunk | |
45 | - François Cami | |
46 | - Ralph Campbell | |
47 | - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino | |
48 | - Mauro Carvalho Chehab | |
49 | - Denis Cheng | |
50 | - Jonathan Corbet | |
51 | - Glauber Costa | |
52 | - Alan Cox | |
53 | - Magnus Damm | |
54 | - Ahmed S. Darwish | |
55 | - Robert P. J. Day | |
56 | - Hans de Goede | |
57 | - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | |
58 | - Helge Deller | |
59 | - Jean Delvare | |
60 | - Mathieu Desnoyers | |
61 | - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich | |
62 | - Alexey Dobriyan | |
63 | - Daniel Drake | |
64 | - Alex Dubov | |
65 | - Randy Dunlap | |
66 | - Michael Ellerman | |
67 | - Pekka Enberg | |
68 | - Jan Engelhardt | |
69 | - Mark Fasheh | |
70 | - J. Bruce Fields | |
71 | - Larry Finger | |
72 | - Jeremy Fitzhardinge | |
73 | - Mike Frysinger | |
74 | - Kumar Gala | |
75 | - Robin Getz | |
76 | - Liam Girdwood | |
77 | - Jan-Benedict Glaw | |
78 | - Thomas Gleixner | |
79 | - Brice Goglin | |
80 | - Cyrill Gorcunov | |
81 | - Andy Gospodarek | |
82 | - Thomas Graf | |
83 | - Krzysztof Halasa | |
84 | - Harvey Harrison | |
85 | - Stephen Hemminger | |
86 | - Michael Hennerich | |
87 | - Tejun Heo | |
88 | - Benjamin Herrenschmidt | |
89 | - Kristian Høgsberg | |
90 | - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | |
91 | - Marcel Holtmann | |
92 | - Mike Isely | |
93 | - Takashi Iwai | |
94 | - Olof Johansson | |
95 | - Dave Jones | |
96 | - Jesper Juhl | |
97 | - Matthias Kaehlcke | |
98 | - Kenji Kaneshige | |
99 | - Jan Kara | |
100 | - Jeremy Kerr | |
101 | - Russell King | |
102 | - Olaf Kirch | |
103 | - Roel Kluin | |
104 | - Hans-Jürgen Koch | |
105 | - Auke Kok | |
106 | - Peter Korsgaard | |
107 | - Jiri Kosina | |
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109 | - Mariusz Kozlowski |
110 | - Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
111 | - Michael Krufky | |
112 | - Aneesh Kumar | |
113 | - Clemens Ladisch | |
114 | - Christoph Lameter | |
115 | - Gunnar Larisch | |
116 | - Anders Larsen | |
117 | - Grant Likely | |
118 | - John W. Linville | |
119 | - Yinghai Lu | |
120 | - Tony Luck | |
121 | - Pavel Machek | |
122 | - Matt Mackall | |
123 | - Paul Mackerras | |
124 | - Roland McGrath | |
125 | - Patrick McHardy | |
126 | - Kyle McMartin | |
127 | - Paul Menage | |
128 | - Thierry Merle | |
129 | - Eric Miao | |
130 | - Akinobu Mita | |
131 | - Ingo Molnar | |
132 | - James Morris | |
133 | - Andrew Morton | |
134 | - Paul Mundt | |
135 | - Oleg Nesterov | |
136 | - Luca Olivetti | |
137 | - S.Çağlar Onur | |
138 | - Pierre Ossman | |
139 | - Keith Owens | |
140 | - Venkatesh Pallipadi | |
141 | - Nick Piggin | |
142 | - Nicolas Pitre | |
143 | - Evgeniy Polyakov | |
144 | - Richard Purdie | |
145 | - Mike Rapoport | |
146 | - Sam Ravnborg | |
147 | - Gerrit Renker | |
148 | - Stefan Richter | |
149 | - David Rientjes | |
150 | - Luis R. Rodriguez | |
151 | - Stefan Roese | |
152 | - Francois Romieu | |
153 | - Rami Rosen | |
154 | - Stephen Rothwell | |
155 | - Maciej W. Rozycki | |
156 | - Mark Salyzyn | |
157 | - Yoshinori Sato | |
158 | - Deepak Saxena | |
159 | - Holger Schurig | |
160 | - Amit Shah | |
161 | - Yoshihiro Shimoda | |
162 | - Sergei Shtylyov | |
163 | - Kay Sievers | |
164 | - Sebastian Siewior | |
165 | - Rik Snel | |
166 | - Jes Sorensen | |
167 | - Alexey Starikovskiy | |
168 | - Alan Stern | |
169 | - Timur Tabi | |
170 | - Hirokazu Takata | |
171 | - Eliezer Tamir | |
172 | - Eugene Teo | |
173 | - Doug Thompson | |
174 | - FUJITA Tomonori | |
175 | - Dmitry Torokhov | |
176 | - Marcelo Tosatti | |
177 | - Steven Toth | |
178 | - Theodore Tso | |
179 | - Matthias Urlichs | |
180 | - Geert Uytterhoeven | |
181 | - Arjan van de Ven | |
182 | - Ivo van Doorn | |
183 | - Rik van Riel | |
184 | - Wim Van Sebroeck | |
185 | - Hans Verkuil | |
186 | - Horst H. von Brand | |
187 | - Dmitri Vorobiev | |
188 | - Anton Vorontsov | |
189 | - Daniel Walker | |
190 | - Johannes Weiner | |
191 | - Harald Welte | |
192 | - Matthew Wilcox | |
193 | - Dan J. Williams | |
194 | - Darrick J. Wong | |
195 | - David Woodhouse | |
196 | - Chris Wright | |
197 | - Bryan Wu | |
198 | - Rafael J. Wysocki | |
199 | - Herbert Xu | |
200 | - Vlad Yasevich | |
201 | - Peter Zijlstra | |
202 | - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz |