From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:30:35 -0800 Message-ID: <20071201163035.321fd554@freepuppy.rosehill> References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: containers@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43980 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753084AbXLBAbe (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:31:34 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Iyck4-0000UT-2M for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:31:28 +0000 Received: from 069-064-229-129.pdx.net ([69.64.229.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:31:28 +0000 Received: from shemminger by 069-064-229-129.pdx.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:31:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow > non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the > binary seething masses from accessing random kernel functions, and allowing > reasonable (but still non GPL) things like ndiswrapper to use network > device interface. > I spoke too soon earlier, ndiswrapper builds and loads against current 2.6.24-rc3. Vmware and proprietary VPN software probably do not. Once again I don't give a damn, but the enterprise distro vendors certainly care. -- Stephen Hemminger -- Stephen Hemminger