Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261273AbUD3VAi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:00:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261186AbUD3VAi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:00:38 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:32920 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261273AbUD3Utn (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:49:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:44:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Marc Boucher 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'" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license In-Reply-To: <69A8B470-9AE6-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> Message-ID: References: <009701c42edf$25e47390$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> <90DD8A88-9AE2-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> <69A8B470-9AE6-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> 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: 861 Lines: 23 On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote: > > > > 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). The Linux-centric parts are absolutely NOT stand-alone, and one big part of that Linux-centric stuff is that magic line that says MODULE_LICENSE(). In other words, you're a weasel. Linus - 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/