linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Message-Id: <1161591846.12449.4.camel@tara.firmix.at>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:24:06 +0200
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 22:41 -0700, Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> It seems that the kernel module loader taints ndiswrapper module as
> proprietary, but it is not - it is fully GPL: see
> http://directory.fsf.org/sysadmin/hookup/ndiswrapper.html
> 
> Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be
> more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, but
> that is not done).

There is no reason (apart from "it hasn't been done yet2 which is a very
weak reason) to use ndiswrapper with a GPL-module - just port the
GPL-module over.

	Bernd
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