Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 15:28:09 EST


On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:36:19PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 1:54 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

You are living in a country where copyright violations can't bring
people into jail?

> Lee

cu
Adrian

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