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Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols

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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@...>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@...>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...>, Jon Masters <jcm@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols
Date: Friday, February 29, 2008 - 1:20 pm

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:07 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Actually, it's a flawed comparison.  The only thing ndiswrapper exports
to NDIS modules is NDIS API.  GPLONLY symbols are only used to implement
that API in the code that's under GPL.  That's the code you can fork,
change and redistribute.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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[PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only sym..., Pavel Roskin, (Thu Feb 28, 6:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Feb 28, 7:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 2:20 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 12:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Zan Lynx, (Fri Feb 29, 12:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Jon Masters, (Fri Feb 29, 1:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Adrian Bunk, (Fri Feb 29, 5:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 1:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 3:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Feb 29, 5:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 6:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Mon Mar 3, 6:57 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Tue Mar 4, 1:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Mar 4, 8:57 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Mar 4, 1:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Mar 4, 4:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Jiri Kosina, (Tue Mar 4, 7:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Wed Mar 5, 9:21 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Tue Mar 4, 1:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Ingo Molnar, (Tue Mar 4, 5:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Tue Mar 4, 7:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Greg KH, (Tue Mar 4, 1:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., John W. Linville, (Fri Feb 29, 4:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 4:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Newall, (Fri Feb 29, 4:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 4:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Newall, (Fri Feb 29, 5:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 6:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Newall, (Sat Mar 1, 4:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 3:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 4:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 4:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Pavel Roskin, (Fri Feb 29, 5:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Chris Friesen, (Fri Feb 29, 12:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., David Woodhouse, (Thu Mar 6, 10:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Feb 29, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only..., Chris Friesen, (Fri Feb 29, 1:59 pm)

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