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Message-Id: <1161906433.9087.121.camel@dv>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:47:13 -0400
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
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 Fri, 2006-10-27 at 01:00 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
Fortunately, it would take a long flight of imagination to classify
ndiswrapper as "software that circumvents copyright protections". One
would have to claim that ndiswrapper is "bundling" itself with non-free
code and "distributing" that "bundle" from the hard drive into RAM, or
something just as ridiculous.
Anyway, I'm glad that the sanity has prevailed for now.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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