On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:55 -0300, Mauricio Teixeira wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 
> > There is a license problem. Ndiswrapper is needed for certain (windows)
> > closed source network drivers which cannot be legally inserted into a GPL
> 
> I *may* be wrong, but in this case you're not violating any license
> because you OWN the hardware, and the software that comes with it.

You may own the hardware but not the software, it is only licenced for
use with the hardware.
> 
> The issue about close vs GPL, is already solved, the same way as NVIDIA
> drivers.

I agree with this, works the same way as the NVidia and ATI drivers do.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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