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From: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:40:25 -0700
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:42:41 -0700, David Schwartz
<davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:37:27 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>>   If this is about maintainability, why not just a simple flag stating if
>>> source is available or not.
>
>>Available under what terms, NDA'd, subject to unacceptable other rules etc..
>>Its not as simple as it looks
>
>	I thought the issue was just whether or not people could get access to the 
>source code for debugging purposes. What we really need is a tag that simply 
>says, 'anyone can get the source code to this module for debugging purposes 
>[from this URL, maybe]'.

URLs go bad and non-responsive regularly,,,

john
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