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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:46:43 +1030
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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To: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
CC: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
       Diego Zuccato <diego@otello.alma.unibo.it>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
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Christer Weinigel wrote:
> I also think that my customers, that decided to keep their kernel
> modules binary only, made a big mistake and have told them so.  But I
> still think it's better for the Linux community to be a bit soft on
> such companies for a while.  It's better to let them get away with it
> for a while, and slowly try to convince them about the error of their
> ways, rather than see them go with Windows CE or a BSD.
>   

This nicely expresses my position.
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