Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

From: Enrico Weigelt
Date: Wed Dec 29 2010 - 16:46:30 EST


* Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> By forcing the driver to be GPL, you automatically exclude Windows
> from the list of platforms supported by such a cross-OS driver, as the
> Windows NDIS headers are AFAIK under a GPL-incompatible license, so no
> GPL driver can be written for Windows.

Which kind of license do these headers enforce ?
Obviously they allow proprietary licenses, do they exclude
open ones ?


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