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SubjectRe: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?
On 13 May 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> 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.

if (!cost_analysis) goto darwinism;

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