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0003 Kernel Driver Statement
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0006 Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
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0008
0009
0010 We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source
0011 Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have
0012 repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and
0013 the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness,
0014 stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development
0015 model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux
0016 community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their
0017 customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors.
0018 Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and
0019 shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to
0020 adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source
0021 kernel code.
0022
0023 We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for
0024 today, have in the past, or will in the future.
0025
0026 - Dave Airlie
0027 - Nick Andrew
0028 - Jens Axboe
0029 - Ralf Baechle
0030 - Felipe Balbi
0031 - Ohad Ben-Cohen
0032 - Muli Ben-Yehuda
0033 - Jiri Benc
0034 - Arnd Bergmann
0035 - Thomas Bogendoerfer
0036 - Vitaly Bordug
0037 - James Bottomley
0038 - Josh Boyer
0039 - Neil Brown
0040 - Mark Brown
0041 - David Brownell
0042 - Michael Buesch
0043 - Franck Bui-Huu
0044 - Adrian Bunk
0045 - François Cami
0046 - Ralph Campbell
0047 - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
0048 - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
0049 - Denis Cheng
0050 - Jonathan Corbet
0051 - Glauber Costa
0052 - Alan Cox
0053 - Magnus Damm
0054 - Ahmed S. Darwish
0055 - Robert P. J. Day
0056 - Hans de Goede
0057 - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
0058 - Helge Deller
0059 - Jean Delvare
0060 - Mathieu Desnoyers
0061 - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
0062 - Alexey Dobriyan
0063 - Daniel Drake
0064 - Alex Dubov
0065 - Randy Dunlap
0066 - Michael Ellerman
0067 - Pekka Enberg
0068 - Jan Engelhardt
0069 - Mark Fasheh
0070 - J. Bruce Fields
0071 - Larry Finger
0072 - Jeremy Fitzhardinge
0073 - Mike Frysinger
0074 - Kumar Gala
0075 - Robin Getz
0076 - Liam Girdwood
0077 - Jan-Benedict Glaw
0078 - Thomas Gleixner
0079 - Brice Goglin
0080 - Cyrill Gorcunov
0081 - Andy Gospodarek
0082 - Thomas Graf
0083 - Krzysztof Halasa
0084 - Harvey Harrison
0085 - Stephen Hemminger
0086 - Michael Hennerich
0087 - Tejun Heo
0088 - Benjamin Herrenschmidt
0089 - Kristian Høgsberg
0090 - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
0091 - Marcel Holtmann
0092 - Mike Isely
0093 - Takashi Iwai
0094 - Olof Johansson
0095 - Dave Jones
0096 - Jesper Juhl
0097 - Matthias Kaehlcke
0098 - Kenji Kaneshige
0099 - Jan Kara
0100 - Jeremy Kerr
0101 - Russell King
0102 - Olaf Kirch
0103 - Roel Kluin
0104 - Hans-Jürgen Koch
0105 - Auke Kok
0106 - Peter Korsgaard
0107 - Jiri Kosina
0108 - Aaro Koskinen
0109 - Mariusz Kozlowski
0110 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
0111 - Michael Krufky
0112 - Aneesh Kumar
0113 - Clemens Ladisch
0114 - Christoph Lameter
0115 - Gunnar Larisch
0116 - Anders Larsen
0117 - Grant Likely
0118 - John W. Linville
0119 - Yinghai Lu
0120 - Tony Luck
0121 - Pavel Machek
0122 - Matt Mackall
0123 - Paul Mackerras
0124 - Roland McGrath
0125 - Patrick McHardy
0126 - Kyle McMartin
0127 - Paul Menage
0128 - Thierry Merle
0129 - Eric Miao
0130 - Akinobu Mita
0131 - Ingo Molnar
0132 - James Morris
0133 - Andrew Morton
0134 - Paul Mundt
0135 - Oleg Nesterov
0136 - Luca Olivetti
0137 - S.Çağlar Onur
0138 - Pierre Ossman
0139 - Keith Owens
0140 - Venkatesh Pallipadi
0141 - Nick Piggin
0142 - Nicolas Pitre
0143 - Evgeniy Polyakov
0144 - Richard Purdie
0145 - Mike Rapoport
0146 - Sam Ravnborg
0147 - Gerrit Renker
0148 - Stefan Richter
0149 - David Rientjes
0150 - Luis R. Rodriguez
0151 - Stefan Roese
0152 - Francois Romieu
0153 - Rami Rosen
0154 - Stephen Rothwell
0155 - Maciej W. Rozycki
0156 - Mark Salyzyn
0157 - Yoshinori Sato
0158 - Deepak Saxena
0159 - Holger Schurig
0160 - Amit Shah
0161 - Yoshihiro Shimoda
0162 - Sergei Shtylyov
0163 - Kay Sievers
0164 - Sebastian Siewior
0165 - Rik Snel
0166 - Jes Sorensen
0167 - Alexey Starikovskiy
0168 - Alan Stern
0169 - Timur Tabi
0170 - Hirokazu Takata
0171 - Eliezer Tamir
0172 - Eugene Teo
0173 - Doug Thompson
0174 - FUJITA Tomonori
0175 - Dmitry Torokhov
0176 - Marcelo Tosatti
0177 - Steven Toth
0178 - Theodore Tso
0179 - Matthias Urlichs
0180 - Geert Uytterhoeven
0181 - Arjan van de Ven
0182 - Ivo van Doorn
0183 - Rik van Riel
0184 - Wim Van Sebroeck
0185 - Hans Verkuil
0186 - Horst H. von Brand
0187 - Dmitri Vorobiev
0188 - Anton Vorontsov
0189 - Daniel Walker
0190 - Johannes Weiner
0191 - Harald Welte
0192 - Matthew Wilcox
0193 - Dan J. Williams
0194 - Darrick J. Wong
0195 - David Woodhouse
0196 - Chris Wright
0197 - Bryan Wu
0198 - Rafael J. Wysocki
0199 - Herbert Xu
0200 - Vlad Yasevich
0201 - Peter Zijlstra
0202 - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
