Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-onlysymbols

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Feb 29 2008 - 14:54:53 EST




On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> I already know what USB folks will say. They want proprietary drivers
> to be in the userspace. I doubt ndiswrapper will ever be ported to the
> userspace. It's much more likely that some other approach will be used.

If that's the case, then talk to the USB people. Maybe they are ok with
wrapping them in GPL wrappers. But it sounds like they would prefer the
stricter GPLONLY meaning (ie no ndiswrapper), and it's their code.

Linus
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