Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:59:34 +0200 | From | Gianluca Alberici <> | Subject | Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper |
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Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> I'm confused on the discussion: > legal? I don't find how a windo$e driver can be "derived work" of Linux, > and anyway they use a "standard" interface. So it is acceptable for GPL > (IMHO and IANAL). so it is not a legal problem. > > I see only a development question: > should we allow untrusted module to know and modify the > "intimate" part of kernel, and cause compability and other large > amount of problems into kernel developers, distribution and users? > I really cannot see even a political problem. I the case of ndiswrapper the problem is not whether we want to support windows or whatever drivermodules, but if we want to support NDIS drivers with a GPL wrapper.
regards,
Gianluca
> So it is a political question, not a legal question! > > ciao > cate > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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