Thus spoke Troy Benjegerdes:
 
> Maybe a solution is to GPL the user-level stuff, and leave all the kernel
> modules (including the linux version) under a BSD/public domain license.
> This would keep the BSD kernel people happy

If this is done, I would encourage an XFree86 style license, not the BSD
license, to avoid the annoying BSD contributor's clause.

See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
for more information.

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