Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423129AbXBBGRB (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:17:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423130AbXBBGRA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:17:00 -0500 Received: from dallas.jonmasters.org ([72.29.103.172]:4921 "EHLO dallas.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423129AbXBBGRA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:17:00 -0500 Message-ID: <45C2D71A.8030209@jonmasters.org> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:15:54 -0500 From: Jon Masters Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Trent Waddington , Tomas Carnecky , 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> <45C2832F.10603@dbservice.com> <3d57814d0702011651s5d5f9dafuc26369fab99ad5cf@mail.gmail.com> <1170385955.3073.884.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1170385955.3073.884.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 74.92.29.237 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jonathan@jonmasters.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on dallas.jonmasters.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 25 Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> But you're right, the MODULE_LICENSE tag really does imply that >> licenses other than the GPL are ok. > > yup.. BSD licensed modules are clearly ok as well.. So I guess we're going to go with Jan's change then. I just wanted to discuss this briefly since I'm very keen for the kernel not to enforce legal/DRM type policy at all - this isn't quite the same discussion as we've had previously but the point remains: it should be for people to realize when they are violating a license as software unfortunately cannot ever be intelligent to catch all the baddies. Personally, I am less worried if people use an obvious "PROPRIETARY" label because they're at least admitting and saying it how it is - then if later it can be shown that they are in fact violating kernel copyright, they've helped to sign their own death warrant :-) Jon. - 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/