Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 15:12 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Llu, 2005-12-05 at 09:34 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > >
> > >>IMHO ndiswrapper can't claim legitimately to be GPL, so just
> > >>patch that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually it isnt so simple. Load ndiswrapper. Now load a GPL windows
> > > driver binary. I don't know if ndiswrapper itself could dig licenses out
> > > of windows modules but if so it could even conditionally taint.
> > >
> > > Alan
> >
> > On the other hand, if the windows driver were GPL then there wouldn't be
> > any barrier to writing a native driver.
>
> Sure, but the point was to demonstrate in a clear and logical fashion
> that ndiswrapper could be GPL.
> -

so it would be OK to run a windows NDIS driver on Linux,
by using ndiswrapper, as long as the windows NDIS driver is GPL?

Never mind its possible stack needs or who knows what else.

-- 
~Randy
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