Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 13:26:42 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:

IANAL, but I have serious doubts whether putting some glue layer between the GPL'ed code and the code with a not GPL compatible licence is really a legally effictive way of circumventing the GPL.

It may depend on the details of the "code with a not GPL compatible licence".

It's pretty hard to argue that a binary driver written for another OS is a derivative work of the linux kernel.

Chris
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