Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423511AbWJZNYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:24:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423513AbWJZNYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:24:01 -0400 Received: from adsl-ull-235-236.42-151.net24.it ([151.42.236.235]:30248 "EHLO zeus.abinetworks.biz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423511AbWJZNYA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:24:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4540B66F.2090801@abinetworks.biz> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:21:51 +0200 From: Gianluca Alberici User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041022) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper 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> <20061026032352.GI23256@vasa.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To: 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: 1998 Lines: 53 Thierry Vignaud wrote: >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. > > In fact it is now, because ndiswrapper doesnt load on 2.6.19. The fact: there's a lot of people who are not gonna be using his wlan unless they are able to modify the sources. I wouldnt forget that ndiswrapper is a tool which solves problems. Linux diffusion is affected by compatibility issues. I really cant see the benefit for Linux in stop supporting windows NDIS drivers...there's a lot of hardware which works only by that. >- >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/