linux-kernel - Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

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Message-ID: <24944.1201645637@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:27:17 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:22:45 EST, Pavel Roskin said:
> Hello!
> 
> It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the
> kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the kernel
> module allowing Windows NDIS drivers for Ethernet and Wireless cards to
> be used by the kernel.

At some point, a compromise position of "Have ndiswrapper do the tainting
if it loads something with contentious licensing" was suggested - whatever
happened to that?

(If for no other reason than if you load ndiswrapper for testing, and then
do *not* actually load something, your kernel should remain untainted...)

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