On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:22:45PM -0500, Pavel Roskin 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.
Is it an official statement of the FSF that such linking is considered
legal?
(RMS added to Cc)
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
cu
Adrian
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