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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:55:37 -0400
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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.


The very fact that someone who represents the company is willing to talk 
to us on LKML should be mega points in their favor.

Yes, they did something wrong, but they're giving us the time of day, 
something a lot of companies don't do until the FSF has been hounding 
them for a year.

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