On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 01:46, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >BN> No, due to licensing concerns; Fedora Core is built to be 100% > >BN> Free/OSS; a wrapper for binary windows drivers really doesn't > >BN> qualify. > > > >I'm confused; ndiswrapper is 100% open source. The drivers aren't, > >but I didn't see any call to include them. If anything, the "get it > >upstream first" argument applies, but I don't see how the license > >issue does. > > > > > It could be seen as an "enabler" in legal circles. > > That said, I don't see Red Hat removing it once it's in the upstream > kernel, so that seems like the only way to get ndiswrapper in Fedora's > kernels. It's likely incompatible with the Fedora kernel anyway due to the 4K stacks. (Windows apparently provides a 12KB stack, so its a miracle it works at all even with 8KB stacks). So if ndiswrapper did get merged into the upstream kernel ever, it'd likely be disabled in the kernels we ship. Dave
