Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:30:26 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 16:11 -0400, ysgrifennodd Pavel Roskin: > I don't see any legal reasons behind this restriction. A driver under > GPL should be able to use any exported symbols. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is a > technical mechanism of enforcing GPL against non-free code, but > ndiswrapper is free. The non-free NDIS drivers are not using those > symbols.
The combination of GPL wrapper and the NDIS driver as a work is not free (in fact its questionable if its even legal to ship such a combination together).
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