Originally posted by birdie
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And what other options are there? Either someone else or Company steps up or it gets removed. That's it.
For years the whole community asked for a native driver, the one was given with no strings attached, oh, god, no one actually cares or wants to continue developing it.
If anything, this just goes to show us the the kernel might need a long term maintainer agreement that committers have to sign if they want to go mainline. Let them keep rocking with DKMS or whatever TF NVIDIA does if they don't want to accept the legally non-enforceable and done-in-good-faith stewardship agreement where you agree to maintain your code with a clear line of communication and agree to either phase out/depreciate code or find a new steward if you're unable to continue maintaining the code.
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