Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 15:12 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but the point was to demonstrate in a clear and logical fashion
that ndiswrapper could be GPL.
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