Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:25:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only
 symbols
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its
> access to GPL-only symbols.  Revert that change and add comments about
> the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special
> way.

I'm not seeing why ndiswrapper should be treated separately.

If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols.

So if ndiswrapper needs GPL-only symbols, you'd better ask the people who 
made those symbols GPL-only whether they could be made available to 
ndiswrapper.

ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that 
ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that 
aren't is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY 
functions to code that is *not* GPL'd.

		Linus
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