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Subject: Re: feature request - why not make netif_rx() a pointer?
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@rth.ninka.net>
To: Slavcho Nikolov <snikolov@okena.com>
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On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 06:39, Slavcho Nikolov wrote:
> As for GPL, I hope that commercial enterprises be allowed to utilize
> business models
> which do not necessarily consist in providing services around free software.
> The more replaceable hooks you provide to filesystems and network stacks,
> the better.

While more hooks may be in your interest, they are not in the interest
of free software.

I really hope you have competant legal advice for the things you are
doing, because binary-only derivative works of a GPL work are illegal.

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