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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:00:02 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> To: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 23:46 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > It's not even clear that any modules containing non-GPL'ed code were > > legal. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I think one cannot classify software as legal or > illegal. That's wrong, e.g. in some jurisdictions writing software that circumvents copyright protections is forbidden by law. > The law governs what people do. Running such mix may be legal > even if distribution is not. > > Anyway, I don't think it's relevant to ndiswrapper. >... All non-GPL'ed modules are in a grey area, and the question isn't whether it's black or white but how light or dark the grey is... > Regards, > Pavel Roskin cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/
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