Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.

[Brian Gerst]

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.

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				Brian Gerst
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