Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274888AbTHFK1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:27:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274909AbTHFK1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:27:06 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:13020 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S274888AbTHFK1D (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:27:03 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:27:01 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: "Petr Vandrovec" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: decoded problem in 2.4.22-pre10 Message-Id: <20030806122701.79c609b4.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <943FB181AFA@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> References: <943FB181AFA@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 24 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:46:52 +0200 "Petr Vandrovec" wrote: > On 5 Aug 03 at 14:23, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > > Hello Petr, > > [...] > > And frankly: I find the application quite ok but tainting the kernel with > > the closed source modules is really something to think about, especially > > since there should be easy ways to avoid that completely. > > This is not true. VMware modules are open source, they are just non-GPL. Sorry for my incorrect description of what I really meant. In fact I wanted to express that the _tainting_ (obviously meaning lack of GPL licensing) should be thought about. Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/