Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 13:26:42 EST
Adrian Bunk wrote:
IANAL, but I have serious doubts whether putting some glue layer between
the GPL'ed code and the code with a not GPL compatible licence is really
a legally effictive way of circumventing the GPL.
It may depend on the details of the "code with a not GPL compatible
licence".
It's pretty hard to argue that a binary driver written for another OS is
a derivative work of the linux kernel.
Chris
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