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SubjectRe: Dual BSD/GPL [ was: Re: Generic modules documentation is outdated]
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On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 07:56, Andrew Rodland wrote:
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> * According to Alan Cox, a license of "BSD without advertisement
> clause" is not a suitable free software license. This license type
> allows binary only modules without source code. Any modules in the
> kernel tarball with this license should really be "Dual BSD/GPL".

The problem with just the BSD tag is that means it might be binary only
so undebuggable. If its dual BSD/GPL then at the least the user can
demand their GPL rights and get the source to debug it

I think all these are now sorted

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