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GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapperGPL-only symbols and ndiswrapperPosted Oct 26, 2006 10:53 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper by dlang Parent article: GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper
That's odd.
I didn't know people used ndiswrapper for anything other then wifi stuff. Learn new stuff everyday, I guess.
Like I said before though, I know that ndiswrapper has legitament uses. It's just that the kernel developers can't afford to have people ignoring open source driver development over binary blobs.
However, if they let end users get comfortable with binary blobs then they would end up being forced to support binary only drivers.
Intel 802.11g, Broadcom 802.11g, Ti 802.11g, Ralink 802.11g, Realtech 802.11g, all of these things have open source drivers for Linux, but all the time people are recommended to abandon everything except for the Intel for the ndiswrapper driver.
If kernel developers sit on this then they are essentially saying:
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