Messages in this thread | | | Date | 13 May 2001 11:32:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules? |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 09.05.01 in <E14xZNJ-00033f-00@the-village.bc.nu>:
> > you stand, it'll cost you around $15K and that, in my opinion, is fine. > > If it isn't worth $15K to protect your code then it is worth so little to > > you that there really is no good reason not to just GPL it from the start. > > Smart advice.
Problem is, the people making that decision are not always the people wanting to distribute the work in question, in which case the argument doesn't work.
I don't know more about this specific case than what was said in the thread, but it sounds like a case in point.
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