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Quote: The Question On The Table

By Jeremy
Created Mar 5 2008 - 17:33

"The question on the table is [...] whether we should let ndiswrapper continue using GPLONLY symbols. Quite frankly, my position on this has always been that the GPLv2 explicitly covers _derived_ works only, and that very obviously a Windows driver isn't a derived work of the kernel. So as far as I'm concerned, ndiswrapper may be distasteful from a technical and support angle, but not against the license."

— Linus Torvalds, in a March 4th, 2008 message [1] on the Linux Kernel mailing list.


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