Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 00:48:28 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Sebastian Gottschall
<s.gottschall at newmedia-net.de> wrote:
> and for the rest. how could it be that linux networking drivers drivers are
> used in a proprietary operating system without using core parts of linux?
> you will find 2 linux drivers in it. for ethernet and wireless.

  The same way NDISWrapper can use Microsoft drivers under a Linux
kernel.  Implementing a call compatible API isn't stealing the code
IMHO (IANAL).

-- 
-- Thomas



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