From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:54:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43947EE0.3040006@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051205093436.44d146e6@localhost.localdomain>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL
Sure it is.
The applications it loads and runs may not be GPL,
same as for Linux in general, but ndiswrapper is just fine.
There's no GPL non-conformance unless somebody is distributing
code that extends GPL functionality without GPLing that code.
And NDIS does not violate that. Sure, it runs binary-only
drivers developed for another O/S, but it is NOT distributing those.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 17:54 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 [this message]
2005-12-06 20:06 ` Alan Cox
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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