This may be a stupid question - but maybe not.  Does NetBSD have some kind
of loadable kernel modules?  If so, couldn't you port the GPL'ed WinModem
drive to be a kernel module, and eventually rewrite it under the BSD
license later?

> On 14.02.01, 10:12:44, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> > On slashdot, they say "IBM Releases GPLd WinModem Support For Linux" 
> > <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/13/0254220>. Is there any 
> > chance that this might be able to be migrated to NetBSD? There is 
> 
> Probably not, _because_ it is GPL, and we do not want our kernel to
> become infected by this virulent licence.
> 
> > certainly interest from users....
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Bernd Sieker
> 
> NetBSD - the devil finds work for idle cycles.
> 		-- Julian Assange
> 

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