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    SubjectRe: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
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    Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.981218213510.21990A-100000@tourian.long.dyn.ml.org>
    By author: Michael Dale Long <mlong@custom.net>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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    > The binary only 3dfx.o module is quite popular with Linux users who own a
    > 3Dfx card. I suspect there are some other devices that are supported only
    > by binary only modules which are popular among their respective userbase,
    > regardless of how small that base might be.
    >
    > Allowing these to be dynamically loaded into the kernel non-GPL'ed is a
    > good thing IMHO. While free software is good, demanding GPL'ed drivers
    > from companies who are hesitant to release binary-only drivers is not
    > helpful to the parts Linux community who want support for that device.
    >

    3dfx.o is certainly NOT a binary-only module, at least not last time I
    looked at it.

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