Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:50:39 -0400 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:57361 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:50:30 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: David Woodhouse Cc: "Morgan Collins [Ax0n]" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:20:58 +0100." <3869.1002702058@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:50:48 +1000 Message-ID: <13388.1002721848@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:20:58 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >BSD-licensed modules shouldn't mark the kernel as tainted. If they do, >that's surely a bug. Any license not listed in include/linux/module.h is not GPL compatible. That list is currently (2.4.11) "GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later] "GPL and additional rights" [GNU Public License v2 rights and more] "Dual BSD/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or BSD license choice] "Dual MPL/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or Mozilla license choice] >The warning should probably read 'Incompatible licence' instead of 'non-GPL', >too. No. Any license text not approved as GPL compatible is, by definition, incompatible. - 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/