Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       jonathan@jonmasters.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, pgiri@yahoo.com
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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:11:13 +0100
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On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2.
> 
> Ndiswrapper loads and executes code with not GPLv2 compatible
> licences 
> in a way in the kernel that might be considered similar to a GPLv2'ed 
> userspace program dlopen() a dynamic library file with a not GPLv2 
> compatible licence.
> 
> IANAL, but I do think there might be real copyright issues with 
> ndiswrapper. 

There are issue as soon as ndiswrapper loads a proprietary NDIS. But a
system with just ndiswrapper loaded shouldn't be tainted.

	Xav


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