Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161159AbWJYU1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161185AbWJYU1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:27:42 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:32225 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161159AbWJYU1l (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:27:41 -0400 Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper From: Alan Cox To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1161807069.3441.33.camel@dv> References: <1161807069.3441.33.camel@dv> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:30:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 17 Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 16:11 -0400, ysgrifennodd Pavel Roskin: > I don't see any legal reasons behind this restriction. A driver under > GPL should be able to use any exported symbols. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is a > technical mechanism of enforcing GPL against non-free code, but > ndiswrapper is free. The non-free NDIS drivers are not using those > symbols. The combination of GPL wrapper and the NDIS driver as a work is not free (in fact its questionable if its even legal to ship such a combination together). - 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/