linux-kernel - Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

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Date:	Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:35:12 +0100
From:	Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@...ux.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

* Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@...il.com> wrote:

> By forcing the driver to be GPL, you automatically exclude Windows
> from the list of platforms supported by such a cross-OS driver, as the
> Windows NDIS headers are AFAIK under a GPL-incompatible license, so no
> GPL driver can be written for Windows.

Which kind of license do these headers enforce ?
Obviously they allow proprietary licenses, do they exclude 
open ones ?


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