Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:28:00 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 15:12 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Llu, 2005-12-05 at 09:34 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > >>IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL, so just > >>patch that. > > > > > > Actually it isnt so simple. Load ndiswrapper. Now load a GPL windows > > driver binary. I don't know if ndiswrapper itself could dig licenses out > > of windows modules but if so it could even conditionally taint. > > > > Alan > > On the other hand, if the windows driver were GPL then there wouldn't be > any barrier to writing a native driver.
Sure, but the point was to demonstrate in a clear and logical fashion that ndiswrapper could be GPL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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