linux-kernel - Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:06:50 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>, rms@....org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux


On Jan 30 2008 00:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the
>> kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the kernel
>> module allowing Windows NDIS drivers for Ethernet and Wireless cards to
>> be used by the kernel.
>>...
>> Just to reiterate some points from the old discussion:
>>...
>> - no copyright violation is involved, as Windows drivers are not derived
>> from Linux sources
>>...
>
>It is interesting that someone posting with an @gnu.org address claims
>that dynamic linking of not GPLv2 compatible code into GPLv2 code was
>not a copyright violation.
>
How about you see this as syscall linkage or pipe linkage^2 instead?
Linux and GNU, respectively, allow these.


^2  gplprogram <input.txt | proprietaryprogram >output.txt
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/