From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754535AbXLBAfV (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:35:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753033AbXLBAfI (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:35:08 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54798 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752983AbXLBAfE (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:35:04 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:30:35 -0800 Organization: Linux Foundation Message-ID: <20071201163035.321fd554@freepuppy.rosehill> References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 069-064-229-129.pdx.net In-Reply-To: <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow > non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the > binary seething masses from accessing random kernel functions, and allowing > reasonable (but still non GPL) things like ndiswrapper to use network > device interface. > I spoke too soon earlier, ndiswrapper builds and loads against current 2.6.24-rc3. Vmware and proprietary VPN software probably do not. Once again I don't give a damn, but the enterprise distro vendors certainly care. -- Stephen Hemminger -- Stephen Hemminger