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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 04:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King writes:
 > Umm, any commercial company can come along and re-implement any part of
 > the Linux kernel, produce a distribution or supply kernel binary images
 > as long as they make available the source code to the people they
 > supply the kernel binary to, and no more.
 > 
 > People do this already with the kernel.  You're not really preventing
 > this, and neither does the GPL prevent it.

Sure, but this isn't the case I'm talking about.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com