gspca dirver for USB webcam

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 17 10:00:10 UTC 2007


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




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