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

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Message-ID: <47A0C138.2070807@nortel.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:26:00 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
CC:	Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>,
	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, rms@....org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

Adrian Bunk wrote:

> IANAL, but I have serious doubts whether putting some glue layer between 
> the GPL'ed code and the code with a not GPL compatible licence is really 
> a legally effictive way of circumventing the GPL.

It may depend on the details of the "code with a not GPL compatible 
licence".

It's pretty hard to argue that a binary driver written for another OS is 
a derivative work of the linux kernel.

Chris
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