Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751035AbWJ0XMM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:12:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751045AbWJ0XMM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:12:12 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]:52881 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751034AbWJ0XML (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:12:11 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hamPzXtB+JEDobSifha9/6jGsMpY0TXLODMUDjyoz5h1YOSwuVm+IvDvZTD4vc9jQNlY2cINR5QkVDylV1Fd8MqB4lFxeVzE4kbv9KmVJy0bGZ0mXjVthos/zSW79Y2HTPmxPgC8X2GhnAVZtB0tb/xMXEvAdAapcbllOvw/I60= Message-ID: <45429240.1080800@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:12:00 -0400 From: Florin Malita User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 32 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. > Older versions of driverloader won't even build for recent kernels (actually even the latest - 2.34 - fails with 2.6.19-rc3). Do you know of any driverloader version that actually works with 2.6.18+ and misrepresents its license? Seems to me they gave up that practice and currently the check is useless but if you want to keep it as a statement I can understand that :) --- fm - 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/