On Wednesday 24 November 2004 07:55, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >Hi > > > >I cooda sworn it was GPL. It is. Website ays so. > >----- > > > >i am aware of that. that doesnt necessarily make it free software. for > >example the mp3 decoders like lame are by themselves under a free > >software license but patents on them override their freeness. in case I've not heard reports of such, and I'd not expect any issues. NDIS is a long-standing standard; I used to use NDIS drivers on OS/2 Warp. However, the spec was developed jointly by MS and 3COM, so who knows? > >of this wrapper its only useful for working with proprietary drivers. > >such a piece of code is called "contrib" in debian. its free software > >which depends on non free software to be usable. similar to java and > >tomcat for example. I would expect it to be in he same class as prism54 which will only work with binary-only firmware. That is in the standard Sarge kernel; I just checked. > > I checked the tarball for ndiswrapper-0.12rc3 and don't see a license > document in there explicitly saying the software is GPL'ed. In fact I > don't see any license document there, of any sort. > > I also checked the website's "wiki" pages and don't see any licensing > terms either -- or any statements that this is GPL'd software. I checked the project page, an that's where I saw "GPL." -- Cheers John
