> By the way, if I faintly remember, any software using even parts of GPL
> code must be wholly GPL'ed itself, no ?

>If I understand modules/makefile correctly (I may not; GNU make is
>mostly French to me :-), the guy who wrote it was smart and put the 
>GPL'd files into thier own kernel module. Once you load the module
>into the kernel and provide a public interface to it's code, the viral
>part of the GPL stops, because other code that accesses only the
>public interface is not considered a "derived work" as a matter of law.

Can someone explain the finer points of where BSD license wins over GPL 
esp when modifying the kernel [for some proprietry work -which may or may 
not reach a customer]?

thanks
-kamal