LWN: Binary-Only Modules Not to be Banned--This Time

Dec 14, 2006, 20:30 (8 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Greg Kroah-Hartman)

"Yes, as Linus points out, this is the main point here, my apologies. GPL covers distribution, not usage, no matter how much the people working on v3 want to change that :)

"Even if we change the kernel this way, it prevents valid and legal usages of the kernel. So I am wrong, sorry..."

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