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Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
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At 12:52 PM 12/18/2001, John Baldwin wrote:

>Actually, no, the kernel doesn't know about loading the math emulator.  Not to
>mention that we have two of them.

I was referring to some of the other code, including ext2fs.

The GPLed math emulator is no longer needed at all, because the 
BSD-licensed one is quite good. The GPLed one should be scrubbed from 
the tree as it is no longer useful and is extra work to maintain (if it 
is being maintained at all).

--Brett


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