Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 07:48:59 EST


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:36:19 -0500
"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Actually in large parts of europe multiple repeated infractions of
copyright law are criminal matters.

Alan
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