Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760104AbYA3S0k (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:26:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752907AbYA3S0b (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:26:31 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:42436 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752002AbYA3S0a (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:26:30 -0500 Message-ID: <47A0C138.2070807@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:26:00 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Giridhar Pemmasani , Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Rusty Russell , rms@gnu.org Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux References: <20080129225701.GS8767@does.not.exist> <754585.89171.qm@web32403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080130175447.GB29368@does.not.exist> In-Reply-To: <20080130175447.GB29368@does.not.exist> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jan 2008 18:26:04.0866 (UTC) FILETIME=[92FC6A20:01C8636D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 18 Adrian Bunk wrote: > IANAL, but I have serious doubts whether putting some glue layer between > the GPL'ed code and the code with a not GPL compatible licence is really > a legally effictive way of circumventing the GPL. It may depend on the details of the "code with a not GPL compatible licence". It's pretty hard to argue that a binary driver written for another OS is a derivative work of the linux kernel. Chris -- 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/