From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:12:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4395F097.5060005@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133899612.23610.59.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox wrote:
> 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
On the other hand, if the windows driver were GPL then there wouldn't be
any barrier to writing a native driver.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 20:10 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
2005-12-06 20:12 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
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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