linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Date:	Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:36:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Anyway, I don't think it's relevant to ndiswrapper.
>> ...
>
> All non-GPL'ed modules are in a grey area, and the question isn't
> whether it's black or white but how light or dark the grey is...

ndiswrapper is GPL, but is (with the current code) not allowed to use the 
gpl-only'ed symbols.

c'ya
sven

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