-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Feldman [mailto:scofeldm@cisco.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:04 PM
To: Shreyas Bhatewara; Arnd Bergmann; Dmitry Torokhov
Cc: Christoph Hellwig; pv-drivers@vmware.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; virtualization@lists.linux-
foundation.org; Pankaj Thakkar
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for
vmxnet3

On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" [off-list ref] wrote:

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It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under

GPL.

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The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the
plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel
modules.

On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" [off-list ref] wrote:

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The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS

agnostic infact

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(Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs)

Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the
Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver?

-scott

Scott,
Thanks for pointing out. This issue can be resolved by adding exception to the plugin license which allows it to link to a non-free program .(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF)

->Shreyas