Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Intel E1000 server gig-card? | Date | 25 Oct 1999 16:41:17 GMT |
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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.
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