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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802281525170.5780@woody.linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:25:41 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org> cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jon Masters <jcm@...masters.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its > access to GPL-only symbols. Revert that change and add comments about > the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special > way. I'm not seeing why ndiswrapper should be treated separately. If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols. So if ndiswrapper needs GPL-only symbols, you'd better ask the people who made those symbols GPL-only whether they could be made available to ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that aren't is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY functions to code that is *not* GPL'd. Linus -- 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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