Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:00:02 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper |
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 23:46 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > It's not even clear that any modules containing non-GPL'ed code were > > legal. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I think one cannot classify software as legal or > illegal.
That's wrong, e.g. in some jurisdictions writing software that circumvents copyright protections is forbidden by law.
> The law governs what people do. Running such mix may be legal > even if distribution is not. > > Anyway, I don't think it's relevant to ndiswrapper. >...
All non-GPL'ed modules are in a grey area, and the question isn't whether it's black or white but how light or dark the grey is...
> Regards, > Pavel Roskin
cu Adrian
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