Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:28:21 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>,
       Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, 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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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:36:19PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 1:54 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > IANAL, and I would therefore ask a lawyer whether, and if yes under
> > which circumstances, shipping a binary driver written for another OS
> > dynamically linked into the Linux kernel would not be a criminal offense.
> 
> Please stop throwing around words like "criminal".  If this is in fact
> illegal it would be a civil matter.

You are living in a country where copyright violations can't bring 
people into jail?

> Lee

cu
Adrian

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