linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:39:39 +0200
From:	Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@...d.feec.vutbr.cz>
To:	Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>
CC:	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> --- Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com> wrote:
>> Are there even any examples of GPL-licensed NDIS drivers?
> 
> I don't remember off hand, but sometime back there was discussion on related
> topic of weather ndiswrapper should be in debian-main or not, and someone
> pointed out a GPL ndis driver. (BTW, after much discussion on debian devel
> list, the developers agreed that ndiswrapper belongs in debian-main.)

AFAIK, the only given example of a free NDIS driver was CIPE-Win32, 
which is a port of CIPE from Linux to Windows. It's quite pointless to 
use ndiswrapper for that.

Michal

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