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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:24:23 -0600
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>,
	Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>
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Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux
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At 12:19 PM 6/14/99 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

 >No. Read the GPL, and read what RMS writes about it. Plugins and
 >loadable modules are derivative work, and must be under GPL.

This is Stallman's attitude -- primarily because he crafted the GPL
out of spite and malice toward commercial developers.

However, I believe that the license under which Linux is published
is not EXACTLY the GPL. It contains an exception for loadable kernel 
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