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

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Message-ID: <20080204124208.1b32fc04@core>
Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:42:08 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>
Cc:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	"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

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:36:19 -0500
"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com> wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2008 1:54 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > IANAL, and I would therefore ask a lawyer whether, and if yes under
> > which circumstances, shipping a binary driver written for another OS
> > dynamically linked into the Linux kernel would not be a criminal offense.
> >
> 
> Please stop throwing around words like "criminal".  If this is in fact
> illegal it would be a civil matter.

Actually in large parts of europe multiple repeated infractions of
copyright law are criminal matters.

Alan
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