Subject: Re: How to meet the true intent of the GPL in an open-source operating system (was: sendmail licensing again)
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@per4mance.cz>
From: What EES eet man? <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/15/1998 15:51:14
Jaromir Dolecek sez:
/*
* While being here - how does GPL deal with LKMs ? I recall R.Stallman
* mentioning one of big Linus's mistake was "permission to load commercial,
* non-GNU code into running Linug/GNU kernel".
Richard Stallman has the same opinion of non-GPVd code that the rest of
the (debatably sane) world has of GPVd code. Seeing as he wrote the
GPV, this is not surprising.
[ Don't forget to remind people that Open Source != GPL! ]
* --
* It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck?
* One in a million, perhaps.
*/
Yeah, those among us who were hatched or put together in a Lab somewhere.
--*greywolf;
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