Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422894AbXBAXee (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:34:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422897AbXBAXee (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:34:34 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:18808 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422894AbXBAXed (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:34:33 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.13,269,1167638400"; d="scan'208"; a="42105648:sNHT20948841" Message-ID: <45C27908.1000202@foo-projects.org> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:34:32 -0800 From: Auke Kok User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trent Waddington CC: Jon Masters , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick References: <45C2670F.5000003@jonmasters.org> <3d57814d0702011430l43c03ae1uc950339b6700f859@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3d57814d0702011430l43c03ae1uc950339b6700f859@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2007 23:34:32.0602 (UTC) FILETIME=[86818FA0:01C74659] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 25 Trent Waddington wrote: > 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. :) to me it even screams "bypassing or a digital copyright enforcement system". that sounds really close to "D.M.C.A. violation" :) thank goodness I'm not a laywer... Auke - 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/