On 29 Mar 2006 at 13:55, 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 you don't really OWN the software. See the 
licence 
text that comes with it. If you'd own the software you could give out your own 
licenses for it.

> 
> The issue about close vs GPL, is already solved, the same way as NVIDIA
> drivers.

SuSE doesn't include these neither, or what?

Regards,
Ulrich


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