Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbUD3UvH (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:51:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265255AbUD3Uow (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:44:52 -0400 Received: from wirefire.bureaudepost.com ([66.38.187.209]:55463 "EHLO oasis.linuxant.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263302AbUD3UjE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:39:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <009701c42edf$25e47390$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> <90DD8A88-9AE2-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <69A8B470-9AE6-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'Sean Estabrooks'" , "'Paul Wagland'" , "'Rik van Riel'" , "'Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz'" , "'Peter Williams'" , Hua Zhong , "'Timothy Miller'" , "'lkml - Kernel Mailing List'" , koke@sindominio.net, "'Rusty Russell'" , "'David Gibson'" From: Marc Boucher Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:39:01 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 35 On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote: >> >>> In contrast, wine was _written_ to do this emulation, so by >>> definition >>> any >>> "bugs" are in wine itself (although I suspect that wine people >>> sometimes >>> would prefer it if Office came with sources ;). >> >> The same can be said about DriverLoader. > > .. but not abotu the kernel that it depends on. > > In other words, if driverloader was a stand-alone project, you could do > whatever the hell you wanted with it. To clarify this important point, driverloader is a standalone project, and structured similarly to the HSF driver (all os-specific code is open-source allowing it to be used with any kernel or even theoretically any other x86 operating system). Because only one logical module is loaded, and a single set of tainted messages bearable, the \0 MODULE_LICENSE() workaround is unnecessary and not used in driverloader. Marc - 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/