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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
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       "Re: 3c589 card CAN be made to work BNC" (Aug  1,  3:28am)
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} 
} >Good work, "look in the linux sources" why didn't I think of that :-)
} >I foolishly tried to get info from 3com...
} >I tried your patch and it works, thanks.
} 
} The copyleft combined with the BSD copyright probably prevents anyone except 
} whoever did the looking from legally using the resulting patch.
} 

Yikes!  It's a copyright, not mind control!

Copyrights don't cover ideas ... they cover the expression of ideas.

I sure hope people aren't staying away from other sources because
of this.  You shouldn't `cut and paste', but you sure can crib from
publicly distributed sources.

Let's not re-invent wheels when it's not necessary.  Please!


Richard