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Inaccurate reporting on GPL
Where's the violation? Making a GPL infrastructure to plug commercial
modules into is perfectly legal, otherwise people wouldn't be able to
make binary-only drivers/modules for Linux.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Arun" == Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Arun> GPL violation! (Of a different kind though :)
Arun> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/previews/2914/1/
Arun> <quote> A client-server arrangement is in the works, and
Arun> while Aethera itself is GPLed, there will be some plug-ins
Arun> that will be available only for a fee (though developers are
Arun> of course free to produce others that they can distribute in
Arun> any way they choose). </quote>
Arun> Most of the files are under a MIT/X license - which is very
Arun> close in spirit and words to the Modified BSD aka FreeBSD
Arun> license.
Arun> -Arun
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