Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261947AbTK1DWg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:22:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261950AbTK1DWg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:22:36 -0500 Received: from h80ad24b3.async.vt.edu ([128.173.36.179]:6533 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261947AbTK1DWe (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:22:34 -0500 Message-Id: <200311280322.hAS3M602016305@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Tonnerre Anklin Cc: Kai Germaschewski , Werner Cornelius , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [I4L] hfcpci missing MODULE_LICENSE In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:00:03 +0100." <20031128020003.GG1635@dbintra.dmz.lightweight.ods.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20031128020003.GG1635@dbintra.dmz.lightweight.ods.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_273047486P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:22:05 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2150 Lines: 58 --==_Exmh_273047486P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:00:03 +0100, Tonnerre Anklin said: > If this is compiled as a module and then loaded, the kernel is tainted > because of a missing module license. True. However.. > Also, according to many european laws, software which is released > under no license must not be used. No way to verify this. I mostly understand the US copyright code as it impacts my work, but have no idea what the other side of that puddle does legally (and for that matter, I don't claim to know what the other side of the other, even bigger, puddle is)... > which says: "I guess the license is meant to be GPL." And so it was almost certainly intended to be. > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Kai Germaschewski /Werner Cornelius "); Unfortunately, neither you nor I nor anybody but Kai or Werner (or their assignees) can do this, as I understand the law. The only proper resolutions here are to get one of them to make some sort of statement (I suspect even a "Yea, it's GPL, we just forgot the macro" e-mail from one of them would be good enough), or to pull the code out of the 2.6.0 tree till it *is* resolved. (Sorry to be a stickler, but this is the sort of thing that Darl and company would love to make a point about - we *do* need to keep careful track of the actual source and license status of every line....) Kai? Werner? You out there? --==_Exmh_273047486P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/xr9dcC3lWbTT17ARAp16AKCGGvouy/xVvvJAK3OOnHh7yq1LEACePFV/ /SWhElc+e+cnpYWpsxkhs9M= =UuEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_273047486P-- - 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/