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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: feature request - why not make netif_rx() a pointer?
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"David S. Miller" <davem@rth.ninka.net> writes:

>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.

No. Distributing work based on GPL code binary-only without supplying
the source and the modifications is (might be? is considered?)
illegal. This is a major difference. 

Else I'd have to delete some of the kernels running here, because I
lost the sources for these. :-) (They're still running happily).

	Regards
		Henning

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