To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:22:45 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:22:45 EST, Pavel Roskin said:
> Hello!
> 
> It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the
> kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the kernel
> module allowing Windows NDIS drivers for Ethernet and Wireless cards to
> be used by the kernel.

At some point, a compromise position of "Have ndiswrapper do the tainting
if it loads something with contentious licensing" was suggested - whatever
happened to that?

(If for no other reason than if you load ndiswrapper for testing, and then
do *not* actually load something, your kernel should remain untainted...)

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