Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932605AbVLFUHl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:07:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932627AbVLFUHl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:07:41 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:27107 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932605AbVLFUHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:07:40 -0500 Subject: Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules. From: Alan Cox To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051205093436.44d146e6@localhost.localdomain> References: <20051203004102.GA2923@redhat.com> <20051205173041.GE12664@redhat.com> <20051205093436.44d146e6@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:06:52 +0000 Message-Id: <1133899612.23610.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 15 On Llu, 2005-12-05 at 09:34 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL, so just > patch that. Actually it isnt so simple. Load ndiswrapper. Now load a GPL windows driver binary. I don't know if ndiswrapper itself could dig licenses out of windows modules but if so it could even conditionally taint. Alan - 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/