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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:54:47 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Module Licensing?
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:47:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> But if you take that strict interpretation, you have _no_ right to copy
> or distribute the object module anyway, except as granted by the license
> on the accompanying source code.

Right you are, but this is trivial to circumvent if you are trying to ship
a binary driver.  The binary doesn't have GPLed code, you are shipping two
things which are not combined when they were shipped, the end user combines
them when running them.
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