Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423496AbWJZNN0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:13:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423498AbWJZNN0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:13:26 -0400 Received: from ezoffice.mandriva.com ([84.14.106.134]:13829 "EHLO office.mandriva.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423496AbWJZNNZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:13:25 -0400 To: Alan Cox Cc: Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper X-URL: <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1161810392.3441.60.camel@dv> <20061025213355.GG23256@vasa.acc.umu.se> <1161817118.7615.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061026032352.GI23256@vasa.acc.umu.se> From: Thierry Vignaud Organization: Mandriva Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:13:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20061026032352.GI23256@vasa.acc.umu.se> (David Weinehall's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:23:52 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 26 David Weinehall writes: > > > 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. and your freedom to do whatever you want at home isn't restricted by the tainting. - 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/