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

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Greg Kroah-Hartman
Dec 14, 2006

“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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