Have you thought of the pandora box this opens?
Imagine someone running a BSD IP module to replace the
Linux one (and of course many proprietary others).
The question is more philosophical than technical: Is this a Good
It does not bother me, it seems no worse than using/allowing a proprietary
ethernet driver. If by some chance someone makes a better IP stack
and plugs it in, it might provide some useful competition. If the
licensing politics are too much for some people to handle, then
you can create a GPL-only symbol that must be exported, or some
hack like that.
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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