FC3 request

[Mike Fedyk]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

>>>>>>"BN" == Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
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>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.
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>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.