From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:23:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071201192341.6750fbdb@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill>
> 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
Why - they aren't exactly likely to be permissible by law
> binary seething masses from accessing random kernel functions, and allowing
> reasonable (but still non GPL) things like ndiswrapper to use network
> device interface.
Its up to the ndiswrapper authors how the licence their code, but they
should respect how we licence ours.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-01 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-01 9:06 [PATCH 0/10] sysfs network namespace support Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:12 ` [PATCH 01/10] sysfs: Make sysfs_mount static again Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:13 ` [PATCH 02/10] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:16 ` [PATCH 03/10] sysfs: sysfs_get_dentry add a sb parameter Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:18 ` [PATCH 04/10] sysfs: Implement __sysfs_get_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:23 ` [PATCH 05/10] sysfs: Rename Support multiple superblocks Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:25 ` [PATCH 06/10] sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file handle " Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:28 ` [PATCH 07/10] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:30 ` [PATCH 08/10] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:33 ` [PATCH 09/10] driver core: Implement tagged directory support for device classes Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 9:35 ` [PATCH 10/10] net: Enable tagging for net_class directories in sysfs Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 13:10 ` namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Mark Lord
2007-12-01 13:13 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 19:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 19:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-12-01 19:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 20:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 20:21 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 20:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-01 22:12 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 23:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 23:24 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-12-02 1:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 23:51 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02 1:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 20:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 22:13 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 0:02 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03 0:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 19:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-02 0:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-02 2:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-02 3:34 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02 4:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-02 19:28 ` Ben Greear
2007-12-02 20:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-12-02 20:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-02 21:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-12-03 1:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-03 8:33 ` Denis V. Lunev
2007-12-03 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-03 18:19 ` Ben Greear
2007-12-03 18:57 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-12-04 15:19 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-12-04 18:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 18:44 ` Ben Greear
2007-12-04 19:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 19:35 ` Ben Greear
2007-12-04 20:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-05 6:14 ` David Miller
2007-12-05 6:01 ` David Miller
2007-12-04 17:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 18:57 ` Ben Greear
2007-12-04 20:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-05 6:07 ` David Miller
2007-12-03 8:24 ` Romano Giannetti
2007-12-03 15:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-03 18:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-03 18:13 ` David Miller
2007-12-02 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-02 19:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-21 3:07 ` [PATCH 0/10] sysfs network namespace support Greg KH
2007-12-21 13:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
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