GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper

GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper

Posted Oct 31, 2006 4:45 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper by interalia
Parent article: GPL-only symbols and ndiswrapper

I believe you misunderstood the discussion. I don't think moving ndiswrapper to non-free was even considered. It was discussed whether to put ndiswrapper to contrib. Software in contrib is required to follow the DFSG, but it's allowed to depend on non-free software. In other words, nobody challenged the notion that ndiswrapper was free software per se.

All "linking" is happening in the kernel memory on the end user system. There is no such thing as ndiswrapper "linked" to a non-free driver for the purpose of distribution.

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