Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 15:06:58 EST


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

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