Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-10-23T08:24:11Z

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 22:41 -0700, Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> It seems that the kernel module loader taints ndiswrapper module as
> proprietary, but it is not - it is fully GPL: see
> http://directory.fsf.org/sysadmin/hookup/ndiswrapper.html
>
> Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be
> more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, but
> that is not done).

There is no reason (apart from "it hasn't been done yet2 which is a very
weak reason) to use ndiswrapper with a GPL-module - just port the
GPL-module over.

Bernd
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