On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:30 +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Dario Lesca wrote: > > Hi, simple question: > > > > Why the USB gspca kernel driver there is not into Fedora standard repo ? > > It's a license problem? > > > > Thanks. > > Not a license problem but Fedora has a general policy of not deviating > from upstream as much as possible and out of tree kernel module packages > aren't allowed in the repository anymore > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-September/msg00019.html > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream > > Rahul > ... Please the original developer's reluctance to submit his driver to kernel.org. - Gilboa
