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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:22:28 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Module Licensing?
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> Since your program, which happens to consist of one open
> source part and one proprietary part, is partly a derived
> work from the kernel source (by using kernel header files
> and the inline functions in it) your whole work must be
> distributed under the GPL.

This is obviously incorrect, that would say that

	#include <sys/types.h>

means my app is now GPLed.  Good luck enforcing that.
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