Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754583AbYA3BJx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:09:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751227AbYA3BJp (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:09:45 -0500 Received: from agrajag.mansr.com ([78.86.181.102]:44420 "EHLO mail.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbYA3BJp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:09:45 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1416 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:09:44 EST To: Adrian Bunk Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux References: <1201641765.18773.35.camel@dv> <20080129225701.GS8767@does.not.exist> <20080130003519.GB1802@does.not.exist> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:46:06 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20080130003519.GB1802@does.not.exist> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:35:19 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (Educational Television, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1658 Lines: 42 Adrian Bunk writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:22PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: >> Adrian Bunk writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:22:45PM -0500, Pavel Roskin 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. >> >> As long as you don't distribute /proc/kcore, I can't see how the GPL >> would have any say in the matter. The Windows drivers are (unrelated >> violations aside) clearly not derived from GPL code. > > Someone might sell a laptop with Linux installed? Not a problem, unless it is booted when sold. Even that might not be a problem, since it would be a matter of transferring ownership of a single copy, not creating and distributing new copies, and the GPL does is only concerned with the latter. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com -- 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/