> the GNU GPL the commercial OS vendors could not use that driver in
> their own closed source OS. The only way they could use it was if their
> source code was released under the GNU GPL, or *BSD license without the
> advertising clause.
Or LGPL, which ensures modifications to the driver are kept open
source, and doesn't prevent linking in proprietrary OSs.
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