Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946069AbWJ0A5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:57:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946070AbWJ0A5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:57:54 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:48141 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1946069AbWJ0A5x (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:57:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:57:51 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Sven-Haegar Koch Cc: Pavel Roskin , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20061027005751.GU27968@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> <20061026230002.GR27968@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 1412 Lines: 42 On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:36:41AM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > >>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... > > ndiswrapper is GPL, but is (with the current code) not allowed to use the > gpl-only'ed symbols. ndiswrapper is mostly a compatility layer for linking non-GPL'ed code into the kernel. This is really a grey area, and the legal status might depend on the jurisdiction and the judge. Considering the vivid "cease and desist" business in Germany, I wouldn't be surprised if some day someone would start sending "cease and desist" letters against mirrors in Germany distributing code in this grey area... > c'ya > sven 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/