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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices 
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 
> kaos@ocs.com.au said:
> > 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) 
> 
> In the world I live in,  the BSD licence without the advertising clause is
> GPL compatible.

So is LGPL, for that matter.  And yes, it _does_ make sense, especially
for headers.

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