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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:00:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026230002.GR27968@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161901793.9087.110.camel@dv>

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

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 20:11 incorrect taint of ndiswrapper Pavel Roskin
2006-10-25 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-25 20:40   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-25 21:04     ` Alan Cox
2006-10-25 21:06   ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-25 21:33     ` David Weinehall
2006-10-25 22:02       ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-25 22:54         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-25 22:58       ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26  3:23         ` David Weinehall
2006-10-26 13:13           ` Thierry Vignaud
2006-10-26 13:21             ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-26  3:59   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-26  9:03     ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-26 10:39     ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 12:21       ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-10-26 12:59         ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-26 14:41       ` Al Viro
2006-10-26 14:55         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 16:00       ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 16:26         ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-27 14:24           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-27 15:14             ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 19:19       ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-26 21:46         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-26 22:29           ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-26 23:00             ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-10-26 23:36               ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-10-27  0:57                 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-26 23:47               ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-27 12:52             ` Roland Kuhn
2006-10-27 15:53               ` Pavel Roskin
2006-10-26 17:26     ` [PATCH ??] " Randy Dunlap
2006-10-27 14:23       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-27 15:27         ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-27 18:26           ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-27 22:56             ` Florin Malita
2006-10-27 22:56               ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-27 23:05               ` Alan Cox
2006-10-27 23:02                 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-27 23:12                 ` Florin Malita
2006-10-27 23:23                 ` Oleg Verych
2006-10-29 11:27             ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-27 21:32         ` Florin Malita
2006-10-27  4:32     ` Florin Malita
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-23  5:41 Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23  5:53 ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23  6:25 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-23  6:41   ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23  6:48     ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23  7:12     ` Chase Venters
2006-10-23 11:07       ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23  9:10     ` Gianluca Alberici
2006-10-23  9:39     ` Michal Schmidt
2006-10-23  8:24 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-10-23 10:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-23 11:35   ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-23 13:00     ` Alan Cox
2006-10-24  2:43       ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2006-10-24  3:11         ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-24 12:12           ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-24 12:22             ` Alan Cox
2006-10-24 14:07         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-23 18:36   ` Zan Lynx
2006-10-24 11:59     ` Jan Engelhardt

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