On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:22PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> As long as you don't distribute /proc/kcore, I can't see how the GPL
> would have any say in the matter. The Windows drivers are (unrelated
> violations aside) clearly not derived from GPL code.
Someone might sell a laptop with Linux installed?
> IANAL
>
> Måns Rullgård
cu
Adrian
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