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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801300004431.14907@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:06:50 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>, rms@....org Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux On Jan 30 2008 00:57, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> 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. >>... >> Just to reiterate some points from the old discussion: >>... >> - no copyright violation is involved, as Windows drivers are not derived >> from Linux sources >>... > >It is interesting that someone posting with an @gnu.org address claims >that dynamic linking of not GPLv2 compatible code into GPLv2 code was >not a copyright violation. > How about you see this as syscall linkage or pipe linkage^2 instead? Linux and GNU, respectively, allow these. ^2 gplprogram <input.txt | proprietaryprogram >output.txt -- 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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