Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750988AbWJ0XIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:08:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751001AbWJ0XIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:08:09 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:29368 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750988AbWJ0XII (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:08:08 -0400 Message-ID: <45429020.4000107@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:02:56 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Florin Malita , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, proski@gnu.org, cate@debian.org, gianluca@abinetworks.biz Subject: Re: [PATCH ??] Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper References: <1161807069.3441.33.camel@dv> <1161808227.7615.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061025205923.828c620d.akpm@osdl.org> <20061026102630.ad191d21.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <1161959020.12281.1.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20061027082741.8476024a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20061027112601.dbd83c32.akpm@osdl.org> <45428EAD.6040005@gmail.com> <1161990307.16839.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1161990307.16839.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 28 Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 18:56 -0400, ysgrifennodd Florin Malita: >> Also, since driverloader is not GPL-compatible (MODULE_LICENSE("see >> LICENSE file; Copyright (c)2003-2004 Linuxant inc.")), that check is >> redundant. How about removing it (applies on top of Randy's patch)? >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Florin Malita > > NAK > > Older versions of Linuxant's driverloader claim GPL\0some other text and > systematically set out to abuse the license tag code. We should continue > to carry the code for this. > > Alan I'm confused. Do you mean that we should continue to treate driverloader as GPL? Oh, I guess I see. You mean that we should continue to have special code to override their "GPL\0other text" license. OK. -- ~Randy - 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/