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Quote from Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>: > John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes: > > > "This file is not a complete program and may only be used when the > > entire operating system is licensed under the GPL". > > > > as > > grep -C 1 "only be used when" > > > > in drivers/net will confirm. > > > > *Please*, can we resist the temptation to 'play' with licenses in this > > way? I suspect this extra clause was added just to clarify what the > > GPL already says, > > I don't think so - GPL doesn't restrict the _use_, only the distribution. OK, more accurately what I meant was that I suspect that the original _intent_ of adding that clause was to clarify the GPL, and that the extra clause fails to do that. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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