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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:24:23 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>
Cc:        David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Morten Seeberg <morten@seeberg.dk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.56.19990614082039.046a2c30@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <xzphfobf5jn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <Tani Hosokawa's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:43:40 -0700 (PDT)"> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906141737070.1992-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>

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At 12:19 PM 6/14/99 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

 >No. Read the GPL, and read what RMS writes about it. Plugins and
 >loadable modules are derivative work, and must be under GPL.

This is Stallman's attitude -- primarily because he crafted the GPL
out of spite and malice toward commercial developers.

However, I believe that the license under which Linux is published
is not EXACTLY the GPL. It contains an exception for loadable kernel 



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