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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
	rms@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jonathan@jonmasters.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, pgiri@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:11:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202296273.23816.63.camel@skunk.anacadf.mentorg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080206105051.GA13874@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2.
> 
> Ndiswrapper loads and executes code with not GPLv2 compatible
> licences 
> in a way in the kernel that might be considered similar to a GPLv2'ed 
> userspace program dlopen() a dynamic library file with a not GPLv2 
> compatible licence.
> 
> IANAL, but I do think there might be real copyright issues with 
> ndiswrapper. 

There are issue as soon as ndiswrapper loads a proprietary NDIS. But a
system with just ndiswrapper loaded shouldn't be tainted.

	Xav



  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-29 21:22 Pavel Roskin
2008-01-29 22:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-29 22:35   ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2008-01-29 23:21   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30  0:25     ` Jon Masters
2008-01-29 22:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 23:56   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30  3:24     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-30  5:07       ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30  5:26         ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30  6:03           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-30  6:12             ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-29 22:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-29 23:04   ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 23:06   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-29 23:25   ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30  0:35     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30  0:46       ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30  1:44         ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-01-30  7:38         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-30  8:45           ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 21:00           ` David Schwartz
2008-01-29 23:44   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30  0:25     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30  2:02       ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 11:24         ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-30 17:54         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 18:15           ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-01-30 18:45             ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 19:43               ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-01-30 20:26                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-30 21:09                   ` Adrian Bunk
     [not found]     ` <E1JKJvh-0006P8-Pi@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-02-01  5:08       ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-06 10:50         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-06 11:11           ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2008-02-06 11:38           ` David Schwartz
2008-02-06 15:10             ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-30  0:48   ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2008-01-30 17:54     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 18:26       ` Chris Friesen
2008-01-30 18:54         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 19:36           ` Lee Revell
2008-01-30 20:28             ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31  1:00               ` Michael Gerdau
2008-02-05 13:00                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-04 12:42             ` Alan Cox
2008-02-04 13:56               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31  3:25       ` David Newall
2008-01-31 15:20         ` Chris Friesen
2008-01-30  0:20 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30  0:35   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30  0:48     ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30  1:33       ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30  1:48   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30  2:08     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30  5:04     ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30  5:38       ` Zan Lynx
2008-01-30  7:40         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-30  8:54           ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 20:50       ` David Schwartz

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