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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 - 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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