From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:06:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133899612.23610.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051205093436.44d146e6@localhost.localdomain>
On Llu, 2005-12-05 at 09:34 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL, so just
> patch that.
Actually it isnt so simple. Load ndiswrapper. Now load a GPL windows
driver binary. I don't know if ndiswrapper itself could dig licenses out
of windows modules but if so it could even conditionally taint.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-03 0:41 Add tainting for proprietary helper modules Dave Jones
2005-12-03 0:58 ` Zan Lynx
2005-12-03 1:11 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 13:41 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-05 17:30 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 17:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-12-05 17:54 ` Mark Lord
2005-12-06 20:06 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-12-06 20:12 ` Brian Gerst
2005-12-06 20:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-06 21:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 9:49 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-06 10:06 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-01-06 10:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 11:41 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
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