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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:35:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101229213511.GA6170@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinEm1mLAtPZdEp2sHRfKPeV6qYP8f9Dbbr92_JD@mail.gmail.com>

* Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com> 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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-29 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18  8:46 Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-18 11:11 ` Theodore Tso
2010-11-18 16:46   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 13:02     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-21 17:29       ` Greg KH
2010-11-21 19:51         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 20:31           ` Alan Cox
2010-11-21 21:44             ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-21 21:47               ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-11-21 21:50                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-22  1:00                   ` Greg KH
2010-11-21 23:35                 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-29 21:35                 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2010-11-21 21:49               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-03 14:13               ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-21 21:47             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 22:12               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-18 11:34 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 16:51   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 19:26     ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-30 19:30       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 19:41         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 20:00         ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-30 20:09           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 20:13           ` david
2010-12-01 16:02             ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2010-11-18 16:45 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:53   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-18 17:23     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-21  0:32     ` Adrian Chadd
2010-11-21  5:53       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21  7:11         ` Adrian Chadd

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