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

Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29T17:20:30Z

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:07 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Zan Lynx wrote:
> >
> > The Linux kernel itself will load proprietary modules. It does not as a
> > general rule, but it will.
>
> .. and it doesn't export GPLONLY modules to them.
>
> How stupid do you have to be to not understand that?

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.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin