From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>,
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: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:53:50 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802291151460.17889@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204313978.2316.8.camel@dv>
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> I already know what USB folks will say. They want proprietary drivers
> to be in the userspace. I doubt ndiswrapper will ever be ported to the
> userspace. It's much more likely that some other approach will be used.
If that's the case, then talk to the USB people. Maybe they are ok with
wrapping them in GPL wrappers. But it sounds like they would prefer the
stricter GPLONLY meaning (ie no ndiswrapper), and it's their code.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 22:11 [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols Pavel Roskin
2008-02-28 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
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 [this message]
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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