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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:26:00 -0600
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
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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
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