Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:42:08 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>, "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
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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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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:36:19 -0500
"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com> 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.

Actually in large parts of europe multiple repeated infractions of
copyright law are criminal matters.

Alan
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