Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423482AbWJZNCn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:02:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423481AbWJZNCn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:02:43 -0400 Received: from adsl-ull-235-236.42-151.net24.it ([151.42.236.235]:19752 "EHLO zeus.abinetworks.biz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423479AbWJZNCl (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:02:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4540B136.8050908@abinetworks.biz> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:59:34 +0200 From: Gianluca Alberici User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041022) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" CC: Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , proski@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper References: <1161807069.3441.33.camel@dv> <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061025205923.828c620d.akpm@osdl.org> <1161859199.12781.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4540A867.307@debian.org> In-Reply-To: <4540A867.307@debian.org> 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: 1310 Lines: 37 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I'm confused on the discussion: > legal? I don't find how a windo$e driver can be "derived work" of Linux, > and anyway they use a "standard" interface. So it is acceptable for GPL > (IMHO and IANAL). so it is not a legal problem. > > I see only a development question: > should we allow untrusted module to know and modify the > "intimate" part of kernel, and cause compability and other large > amount of problems into kernel developers, distribution and users? > I really cannot see even a political problem. I the case of ndiswrapper the problem is not whether we want to support windows or whatever drivermodules, but if we want to support NDIS drivers with a GPL wrapper. regards, Gianluca > So it is a political question, not a legal question! > > ciao > cate > - > 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/ - 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/