Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761593AbYB2RUa (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:20:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753738AbYB2RUN (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:20:13 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:54993 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753465AbYB2RUM (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:20:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols From: Pavel Roskin To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Zan Lynx , linux-kernel , Jon Masters , Rusty Russell In-Reply-To: References: <1204236662.3612.6.camel@dv> <20080229012012.ajlsk4pow8wkkgss@webmail.spamcop.net> <1204304352.6767.21.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:20:09 -0500 Message-Id: <1204305609.21719.16.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 25 On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:07 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Zan Lynx wrote: > > > > The Linux kernel itself will load proprietary modules. It does not as a > > general rule, but it will. > > .. and it doesn't export GPLONLY modules to them. > > How stupid do you have to be to not understand that? Actually, it's a flawed comparison. The only thing ndiswrapper exports to NDIS modules is NDIS API. GPLONLY symbols are only used to implement that API in the code that's under GPL. That's the code you can fork, change and redistribute. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/