Re: feature request - why not make netif_rx() a pointer?

David S. Miller (davem@rth.ninka.net)
23 Oct 2002 21:13:25 -0700

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 06:39, Slavcho Nikolov wrote:
> As for GPL, I hope that commercial enterprises be allowed to utilize
> business models
> which do not necessarily consist in providing services around free software.
> The more replaceable hooks you provide to filesystems and network stacks,
> the better.

While more hooks may be in your interest, they are not in the interest
of free software.

I really hope you have competant legal advice for the things you are
doing, because binary-only derivative works of a GPL work are illegal.

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