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Subject: Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: David McIlwraith <quack@bigpond.net.au>
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On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 03:49, David McIlwraith wrote:
> How should it? The compiler (specifically, the C preprocessor) includes the
> code, thus it is not the AUTHOR violating the GPL.

It is if the AUTHOR then decides to distribute the resulting binary
which would contain a mix of GPL and non GPL work..
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