Re: [opensuse] SCO is toast... Novell go get em



On Thursday 30 November 2006 21:33, Andre Truter wrote:
Even if the kernel developers think that my module is very cool and
they accept it as an official kernel module that will be distributed
with the kernel, then I still have not control over the kernel or any
other module. I will have to GPL my module and it will be under the
scrutiny of the other kernel developers and if I suddenly decide to
change my module to write "MS Rulez" in the file instead of the 1,
then my module will most probably be kicked out of the list of
supported kernel modules and I would still not have gained anything.

More likely, the original module - assuming it was useful - will be kept, but
the patch to break it won't be accepted and you will no longer be the
maintainer of it

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