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SubjectRe: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL

Sure it is.

The applications it loads and runs may not be GPL,
same as for Linux in general, but ndiswrapper is just fine.

There's no GPL non-conformance unless somebody is distributing
code that extends GPL functionality without GPLing that code.

And NDIS does not violate that. Sure, it runs binary-only
drivers developed for another O/S, but it is NOT distributing those.

Cheers
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