linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:54:44 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
Cc:	David Weinehall <tao@....umu.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 18:02 -0400, ysgrifennodd Pavel Roskin:
> And that's what I think is way over the top.  It's akin looking for
> process called "wine" (or detecting it by its behavior) and denying it
> access to some syscalls.

On the contrary there is little likelyhood that wine is a derivative
work, and even if it was the note with the kernel explicitly deals with
that by saying "we don't intend a judge to interpret it that way"


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