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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>

To: Pavel Roskin <proski@...>

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 - 3:53 pm

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
quoted text> 
> 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
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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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