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SubjectRe: Intel E1000 server gig-card?
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Followup to:  <E11fjko-0000uf-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > I glanced at it's license, didn't see a reason why it couldn't be GPLed.
>
> Also remember the GPL subsumes anything freer. So you can mix code that is
> as free as the GPL with the GPL as GPL. This is why we can share code
> with FreeBSD that doesn't have the advertising clause.
>
> If it bugs you, write a clean GPL driver from their nailed together DLPI
> glue and driver.
>

Yes, and with Berkeley recently scratching the advertising clause on
all Berkeley-copyrighted code, it makes the pool of shareable software
quite large.

-hpa
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