Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:46:00 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper |
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:19:00PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: >... > > This means that ndiswrapper would be considered as a derived work of > Linux. Since ndiswrapper is under GPL, it would suffer unfairly if the > meaning of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is extended to restrict GPLed modules > capable of loading proprietary code into the kernel. >...
You could always write a tiny GPL-ed wrapper module with the sole purpose of offering all EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'ed functions through EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed wrapper functions.
You are using a gnu.org address for publically stating that trying to prevent such kinds of wrapping was unfair?
It's not even clear that any modules containing non-GPL'ed code were legal.
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL shows a pretty clear intention, and offering functionality provided throug h EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'ed symbols to proprietary code sounds very fishy.
> Regards, > Pavel Roskin
cu Adrian
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