Re: Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.

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.

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