linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Message-ID: <20061026032352.GI23256@vasa.acc.umu.se>
Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:23:52 +0200
From:	David Weinehall <tao@....umu.se>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:58:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-25 am 23:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd David Weinehall:
> > Personally I feel that no matter if they are legal or not, we should not
> > cater to such drivers in the first place.  If it's trickier to use
> > Windows API-drivers under Linux than to write a native Linux driver,
> > big deal...  We don't want Windows-drivers.  We want native drivers.
> 
> Neither taint nor _GPL are intended to stop people doing things that, in
> the eyes of the masses, are stupid. The taint mark is there to ensure
> that they don't harm the rest of us. The FSF view of freedom is freedom
> to modify not freedom to modify in a manner approved by some defining
> body.

Hence my use of the world "Personally".  It's my own opinion that we
shouldn't support Windows API-drivers.  I don't think this has anything
to do with the FSF view on freedom.  This has to do with the freedom to
make a sound technical decision.


Regards: David
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