Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264054AbUD0NNE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:13:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264072AbUD0NNE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:13:04 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:11199 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264054AbUD0NM7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:12:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:12:57 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Paulo Marques Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license (-> possible GPL violation :) Message-ID: <20040427131257.GG29503@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Paulo Marques , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <408DC0E0.7090500@gmx.net> <1083045844.2150.105.camel@bach> <20040427092159.GC29503@lug-owl.de> <408E37D9.7030804@gmx.net> <408E5944.8090807@grupopie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+sHJum3is6Tsg7/J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <408E5944.8090807@grupopie.com> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1663 Lines: 51 --+sHJum3is6Tsg7/J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-04-27 13:59:48 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote in message <408E5944.8090807@grupopie.com>: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >This way, the module format doesn't change, but we can do additional > >verification in the loader. >=20 > The way I see it, they know a C string ends with a '\0'. This is like=20 > saying that a English sentence ends with a dot. If they wrote "GPL\0" the= y=20 > are effectively saying that the license *is* GPL period. >=20 > So, where the source code? :) That's another (quite amusing:) point of view. Anybody willing to ask a lawyer? MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --+sHJum3is6Tsg7/J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAjlxZHb1edYOZ4bsRAkDpAJwLlI1MEP7yBCTrIGqftyz8YJlTJACeORjG b8NdcQfuRfIOELAhiyhABBw= =jP+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+sHJum3is6Tsg7/J-- - 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/