Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262114AbUD1UxP (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:53:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261443AbUD1UCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:02:52 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:52143 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261418AbUD1TRM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:17:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:58:01 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Paulo Marques Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Jan-Benedict Glaw , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license Message-ID: <20040427185800.GS2595@openzaurus.ucw.cz> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <408E5944.8090807@grupopie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 17 Hi! > The way I see it, they know a C string ends with a '\0'. This is like > saying that a English sentence ends with a dot. If they wrote "GPL\0" > they are effectively saying that the license *is* GPL period. If you use modinfo, license probably will be displayed as GPL. I'd guess that sending bunch of lawyers their way is right solution. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - 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/