Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 30 2008 00:57, Adrian Bunk 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.
>
How about you see this as syscall linkage or pipe linkage^2 instead?
Linux and GNU, respectively, allow these.


^2  gplprogram <input.txt | proprietaryprogram >output.txt
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