Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261857AbUD1XYp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261887AbUD1XYp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:24:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:21671 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261857AbUD1XYj (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:24:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com 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 In-Reply-To: <408E5944.8090807@grupopie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 26 On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Paulo Marques wrote: > 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. > > So, where the source code? :) Definitely my favorite approach of dealing with these people. Does anybody know whether their modules use any EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and whether they touch any code I could claim copyright on ? If it touches any of my code, where should I mail the cease & desist ? ;) -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/