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To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
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Subject: Re: xircom hardware specs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 1996 16:19:16 +0900."
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 19:52:35 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> I heard from Linux community that Xircom has violated GPL (they used
> GPL'ed code for their driver, and they did not provide sources).  This
> is one of the largest reason why I don't want to support Xircom's
> cards.

Not GPL, rather the used the Crynwr packet-driver without following the
rules, and they pissed off a good deal of people with their attitude
and response when the complaint was launched.

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