[ale] Are our Ethernet drivers in danger?

[scherrey at innoverse.com (Benjamin Scherrey)]

Joe's comments are correct. Releasing code developed using tax dollars, 
outside of special circumstances such as the examples Joe gives, under any 
kind of restrictive license is illegal. The GPL is an extremely restrictive 
license and does act, in a sense, as a virus of sorts even though that is a 
very pejorative term. That is, in fact, the stated intent of its creator who 
espouses the elimination of intellectual property rights which goes against 
the Constitution of the United States of America. The GPL is certainly a 
valid license, and I fully support the rights of private authors to utilize 
it, but it is not legal under the conditions of intellectual property 
developed at taxpayer expense.

	regards,

		Ben Scherrey
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