Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:06:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
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On Jan 30 2008 00:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> 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.
>>...
>> Just to reiterate some points from the old discussion:
>>...
>> - no copyright violation is involved, as Windows drivers are not derived
>> from Linux sources
>>...
>
>It is interesting that someone posting with an @gnu.org address claims
>that dynamic linking of not GPLv2 compatible code into GPLv2 code was
>not a copyright violation.
>
How about you see this as syscall linkage or pipe linkage^2 instead?
Linux and GNU, respectively, allow these.


^2  gplprogram <input.txt | proprietaryprogram >output.txt
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