Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945985AbWJZXAH (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:00:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945984AbWJZXAG (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:00:06 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:269 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1945987AbWJZXAD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:00:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:00:02 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20061026230002.GR27968@stusta.de> References: <1161807069.3441.33.camel@dv> <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061025205923.828c620d.akpm@osdl.org> <1161859199.12781.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1161890340.9087.28.camel@dv> <20061026214600.GL27968@stusta.de> <1161901793.9087.110.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1161901793.9087.110.camel@dv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1236 Lines: 39 On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 23:46 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > It's not even clear that any modules containing non-GPL'ed code were > > legal. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I think one cannot classify software as legal or > illegal. That's wrong, e.g. in some jurisdictions writing software that circumvents copyright protections is forbidden by law. > The law governs what people do. Running such mix may be legal > even if distribution is not. > > Anyway, I don't think it's relevant to ndiswrapper. >... All non-GPL'ed modules are in a grey area, and the question isn't whether it's black or white but how light or dark the grey is... > Regards, > Pavel Roskin cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/