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    SubjectRe: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]
    FromDavid Woodhouse <>
    DateThu, 14 Dec 2006 08:21:44 +0000
    On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
    > Oh, and for those who have asked me how we would enforce this after this
    > date if this decision is made, I'd like to go on record that I will be
    > glad to take whatever legal means necessary to stop people from
    > violating this. 
    
    I see no _overriding_ reason to wait. This is a technical measure which
    they'd need to deliberately work around, and which might make the case
    easier to win -- but I think I'm on record already as planning to sue
    someone soon for binary-only modules, even without this particular
    technical measure to prevent them.
    
    The only reason it hasn't happened so far is because lawyers make me
    itch.
    
    -- 
    dwmw2
    
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