Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:34:11 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules. |
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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. > -
so it would be OK to run a windows NDIS driver on Linux, by using ndiswrapper, as long as the windows NDIS driver is GPL?
Never mind its possible stack needs or who knows what else.
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