Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:05:05 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:26:55PM +0100, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:01:41 -0800, Greg KH a ?crit?:
> 
> > If you, or your company is relying on closed source kernel modules, your
> > days are numbered.  And what are you going to do, and how are you going
> > to explain things to your bosses and your customers, if possibly,
> > something like this patch were to be accepted?
> > 
> Why not make a crappy GPL driver that just export again
> the symbols ?
> 
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

Because that's just so obviously illegal that anyone caught doing that
would have no defense at all :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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