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Re: Status of UNDI Support
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: Status of UNDI Support |
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Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:25:58 +0000 |
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On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:42, Marco Gerards wrote:
> NDIS drivers are non-free software. We can't and will not support
> this. It can't even be done unofficially, in that case it will be a
> license violation, AFAIK.
From purely legal point of view, this is in a gray zone. For example, if you
compile GPL code on a proprietary C library, is this illegal? Note that BIOS
and Open Firmware are not Free Software usually, but we still use them.
> And besides that, using non-free software is just not the right thing
> to do.
I agree.
Okuji