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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:25:41 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802281525170.5780@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204236662.3612.6.camel@dv>
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its
> access to GPL-only symbols. Revert that change and add comments about
> the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special
> way.
I'm not seeing why ndiswrapper should be treated separately.
If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols.
So if ndiswrapper needs GPL-only symbols, you'd better ask the people who
made those symbols GPL-only whether they could be made available to
ndiswrapper.
ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that
ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that
aren't is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY
functions to code that is *not* GPL'd.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-28 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 22:11 Pavel Roskin
2008-02-28 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-02-29 6:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 16:54 ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-29 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 17:59 ` Chris Friesen
2008-03-06 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-02-29 16:59 ` Zan Lynx
2008-02-29 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 17:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 19:39 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 20:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 21:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 20:17 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-29 20:40 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 20:59 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 21:08 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 22:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-01 8:15 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 20:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 21:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 22:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-03 10:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 5:37 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-04 17:38 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 17:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 21:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 23:23 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 23:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-05 13:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 17:18 ` Jon Masters
2008-02-29 21:55 ` Adrian Bunk
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