Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

[Mike Galbraith]

On 13 May 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> [e-mail] (Alan Cox)  wrote on 09.05.01 in <[e-mail]>:
>
> > > you stand, it'll cost you around $15K and that, in my opinion, is fine.
> > > If it isn't worth $15K to protect your code then it is worth so little to
> > > you that there really is no good reason not to just GPL it from the start.
> >
> > Smart advice.
>
> Problem is, the people making that decision are not always the people
> wanting to distribute the work in question, in which case the argument
> doesn't work.

if (!cost_analysis) goto darwinism;