Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265164AbUD3R5G (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:57:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265171AbUD3R5G (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:57:06 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:53520 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265164AbUD3R5D (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:57:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4092948D.6030600@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:01:49 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tigran Aivazian CC: Jeff Garzik , Marc Boucher , Sean Estabrooks , koke@sindominio.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, torvalds@osdl.org, paul@wagland.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 32 Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>DriverLoader significantly lowers that cost, while not providing an open >>source solution at all. > > > Ah, I see.... that makes a HUGE difference. Now I understand what the fuss > is all about. So, that is why everyone jumped on Marc Boucher's throat > trying to annihilate, humiliate, frighten by unsubstantiated allegations > and generally grind him into tiny specks of dust, at the same time falsely > pretending that all the fuss was only about that silly '\0' byte they > left in their license string (I wish they knew better not to do that --- > there are millions of ways to achieve what they want). Nope. The real objection was misleading people about the license of the module. That part was clearly wrong. The fact that it dilutes Linux is a side-objection, and we're not making an objection so much as a warning about the potential long-term effects. This part isn't clearly wrong so much as something to be concerned about. At least, that's MY opinion on it. - 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/