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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:59:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices 
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:20:58 +0100, 
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 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]

What the hell?  BSD without advertisement clause had always been
GPL-compatible.

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