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To: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
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"Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com> writes:

> Then again, it appears that most developers are using wrapped to
> avoid this situation, such that their private code does not include
> any Linux headers, only the GPL'ed wrapper.

wrappers are gpl-ed.
i do not think they offer so much "work" that their authors have the
right to tell "here's there's a boundary; our binary module can
legally use our wrapper".