Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932253AbWJZDX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:23:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932229AbWJZDX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:23:58 -0400 Received: from mail.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.156]:1729 "EHLO mail.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932253AbWJZDX5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:23:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:23:52 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: Alan Cox Cc: Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20061026032352.GI23256@vasa.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1161807069.3441.33.camel@dv> <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1161810392.3441.60.camel@dv> <20061025213355.GG23256@vasa.acc.umu.se> <1161817118.7615.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1161817118.7615.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Editor: Vi Improved X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pub_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1447 Lines: 29 On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:58:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 23:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd David Weinehall: > > Personally I feel that no matter if they are legal or not, we should not > > cater to such drivers in the first place. If it's trickier to use > > Windows API-drivers under Linux than to write a native Linux driver, > > big deal... We don't want Windows-drivers. We want native drivers. > > Neither taint nor _GPL are intended to stop people doing things that, in > the eyes of the masses, are stupid. The taint mark is there to ensure > that they don't harm the rest of us. The FSF view of freedom is freedom > to modify not freedom to modify in a manner approved by some defining > body. Hence my use of the world "Personally". It's my own opinion that we shouldn't support Windows API-drivers. I don't think this has anything to do with the FSF view on freedom. This has to do with the freedom to make a sound technical decision. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - 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/