Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932629AbVLFUKV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:10:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932630AbVLFUKV (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:10:21 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:20641 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932629AbVLFUKT (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:10:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4395F097.5060005@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:12:07 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Stephen Hemminger , 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> <1133899612.23610.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1133899612.23610.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 23 Alan Cox wrote: > 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 On the other hand, if the windows driver were GPL then there wouldn't be any barrier to writing a native driver. -- Brian Gerst - 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/