Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932769AbXBAWaF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:30:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932801AbXBAWaF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:30:05 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.250]:14852 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932769AbXBAWaD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:30:03 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CbQ5/XSiHtZoaDV7euI5gm0KvgySE6SCi02C452n+eT9lMa8Nylk1O5k5DlG7Idyr9PDKJfRpM6etOUpbwm14rOVxB7T1Y8LxpI1y6KTjEejVFLpCOKoqWRWx1zmUCNxR45Aok377HM62ahCJYpbrw3jcViRdU3F5UIYTbRSpSs= Message-ID: <3d57814d0702011430l43c03ae1uc950339b6700f859@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:30:01 +1000 From: "Trent Waddington" To: "Jon Masters" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Andrew Morton" , "Alexey Dobriyan" In-Reply-To: <45C2670F.5000003@jonmasters.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45C2670F.5000003@jonmasters.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 19 On 2/2/07, Jon Masters wrote: > Ok. I totally dig the *idea* here - I mean, this issue has been ongoing > for a long time now. But I'd like to see a few comments as to whether we > need a technological mechanism here to enforce the obvious. To me, it > just seems totally obvious (any legal comment?) that early C string > termination is undermining the intent of the MODULE_LICENSE tag. I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you exactly what a lawyer would say: "well, ya know, it's hard to say when it comes to these issues" that's the answer to *any* copyright question. :) Trent - 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/