Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols

Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29T17:35:07Z

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> Actually, it's a flawed comparison. The only thing ndiswrapper exports
> to NDIS modules is NDIS API. GPLONLY symbols are only used to implement
> that API in the code that's under GPL. That's the code you can fork,
> change and redistribute.

.. and it's stuill just a wrapper.

A fairly thick one, but still...

More importantly, none of the people arguing against this at all even
reacted to my suggestion for how to fix things *properly* in my original
email. Which just means that you're apparently not interested in actually
fixing this, you're just trying to disagree about some interpretation of
GPLONLY.

In other words: the next person who can't even be bothered to tell what
symbols are involved and why they haven't asked whether those symbols
could instead be relaxed, automaticaly will go into my "flamers" filter,
and just stay there. Then you can complain as much as you like, and I'll
never see it.

Linus