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    SubjectRe: GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary driver.
    Chris Friesen wrote:
    > If you sit down and write a new driver for linux, is is arguable that
    > it is in fact a derivative work of the kernel and is thus subject to
    > the GPL.

    This is essentially the argument that SCO used when they sued IBM over
    IBM's printing technology.


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