From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:12:51 +1000

Re: Do We Want KGI To Be The Standard? (Re: I'm back)

Hartmut writes:

>  > > - we use GPL and have trouble with the *BSD crowd,
>  > > - we use BSD and have trouble with the Linux crowd,
>  > 
>  > Nobody have any problem with the X license, no? We'll simply use that
>  > one..
>  > 
>  > -- 
>  > Torgeir Veimo, Vertech AS,
>  In the *Kernel*?
>  I can imagine trouble coming if Xish licensed material gets compiled
>  into a linux or *bsd KERNEL. Or am I totally off??

No you're right.  If it gets statically linked into the kernel (i.e.
becomes a part of vmlinux/zImage/whatever), then it must be GPL.  This
is why there are a couple of "module only" things -- because they are
BSD (e.g. the ppp compression IIRC).

Cheers,
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