Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751344AbVLERyn (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:54:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751387AbVLERym (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:54:42 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:31630 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344AbVLERym (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:54:42 -0500 Message-ID: <43947EE0.3040006@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:54:40 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules. References: <20051203004102.GA2923@redhat.com> <20051205173041.GE12664@redhat.com> <20051205093436.44d146e6@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20051205093436.44d146e6@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 20 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL Sure it is. The applications it loads and runs may not be GPL, same as for Linux in general, but ndiswrapper is just fine. There's no GPL non-conformance unless somebody is distributing code that extends GPL functionality without GPLing that code. And NDIS does not violate that. Sure, it runs binary-only drivers developed for another O/S, but it is NOT distributing those. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/