From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
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 02:57:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061027005751.GU27968@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610270132290.6757@mercury.sdinet.de>
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:36:41AM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >>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...
>
> ndiswrapper is GPL, but is (with the current code) not allowed to use the
> gpl-only'ed symbols.
ndiswrapper is mostly a compatility layer for linking non-GPL'ed code
into the kernel.
This is really a grey area, and the legal status might depend on the
jurisdiction and the judge.
Considering the vivid "cease and desist" business in Germany, I wouldn't
be surprised if some day someone would start sending "cease and desist"
letters against mirrors in Germany distributing code in this grey
area...
> c'ya
> sven
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 0:57 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
2006-10-26 23:36 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-10-27 0:57 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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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