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From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
To: "'Jan Engelhardt'" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
       "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
       "'Jon Masters'" <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       "'Alexey Dobriyan'" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:53:06 +0100
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Hello,

> will be written to the object file will be "license=GPL\0for 
> nothing\0". 
> When this is interpreted back again in the kernel module 
> loader, it is 
> read as "license=GPL", having circumvented the loading mechanism and 
> having wrongfully access to GPL symbols. According to Alexey [ 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/233 ], LinuxAnt is one vendor to use 
> this trick.

If that is really one important point, why not simply adding a :
MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE("yes|no")
and a
MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LIKE_LICENSE("yes|no")

or use 0 and 1 instead of yes and no, and thus clearly avoid all the
C string mess ?

Regards,
Paul

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