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From: David Newall <davidn@...>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
Cc: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...>, Pavel Roskin <proski@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Jon Masters <jonathan@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>, <rms@...>
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:25 pm

Adrian Bunk wrote:


Just to refresh my memory, I re-read the GPLv2, and specifically the
licence (COPYING file) that comes with Linux 2.6.23, and I see nothing
in it that suggests shims, wrappers or other glue-layers are forbidden. 
I see exactly the opposite.  This idea that some symbols may only be
dynamically bound to GPL code is fallacy.  In the preamble to GPLv2 are
words which make the position clear:

  "the GNU General Public icense is intended to guarantee your freedom
to share and change free software"

Childish games, for example blacklisting ndiswrapper, can be defeated,
using patches, by authors of affected programs or anyone else.  That's
the freedom guaranteed by GPL.
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ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 5:22 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:20 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 9:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Wed Jan 30, 1:04 am)
RE: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, David Schwartz, (Wed Jan 30, 4:50 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Zan Lynx, (Wed Jan 30, 1:38 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Wed Jan 30, 3:40 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 10:08 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 8:35 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 9:33 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 29, 6:57 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Giridhar Pemmasani, (Tue Jan 29, 8:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 1:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, David Newall, (Wed Jan 30, 11:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Chris Friesen, (Thu Jan 31, 11:20 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Chris Friesen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:26 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 2:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lee Revell, (Wed Jan 30, 3:36 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Mon Feb 4, 8:42 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Feb 4, 9:56 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 4:28 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Michael Gerdau, (Wed Jan 30, 9:00 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Feb 5, 9:00 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 7:44 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 29, 8:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 10:02 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 1:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:15 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 2:45 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jan 30, 3:43 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, , (Wed Jan 30, 4:26 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 5:09 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Rusty Russell, (Wed Jan 30, 7:24 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 29, 7:04 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 7:06 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 29, 6:45 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 7:56 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 29, 11:24 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Wed Jan 30, 1:07 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Wed Jan 30, 1:26 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:03 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Wed Jan 30, 2:12 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, , (Tue Jan 29, 6:27 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 7:21 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Giridhar Pemmasani, (Tue Jan 29, 6:35 pm)