linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Message-Id: <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:30:26 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 16:11 -0400, ysgrifennodd Pavel Roskin:
> I don't see any legal reasons behind this restriction.  A driver under
> GPL should be able to use any exported symbols.  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is a
> technical mechanism of enforcing GPL against non-free code, but
> ndiswrapper is free.  The non-free NDIS drivers are not using those
> symbols.

The combination of GPL wrapper and the NDIS driver as a work is not free
(in fact its questionable if its even legal to ship such a combination
together).


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