Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Alan Cox
2006-10-25T20:27:42Z

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).