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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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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/