Non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules Banned Starting January 2008?

It’s always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message.”
More here. Hopefully, many closed-source drivers will be opened during the next year if this patch goes through. Update: Linus responds.

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