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David Leimbach wrote:
> IANAL but I think the GPL has provisions for binaries that contain code that is
> not necessarily dependant but merely aggregated into one package.

Linking is not "mere agregation".  If you can cite the section
of the GPL you are talking about, it would be useful (this is
a strawman: I have been dealing with lawyers over the GPL since
1992).

> Still I agree... it must be a module for more than one very good reason :).

-- Terry