Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932113AbXBENJH (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:09:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932333AbXBENJG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:09:06 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:51094 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932113AbXBENJF (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:09:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:08:51 +0100 (CET) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: Alan cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jan Engelhardt , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick In-Reply-To: <20070203200209.4f931fdc@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20070203200209.4f931fdc@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 X-Provags-ID2: V01U2FsdGVkX19/mj6BFoLZxiFUfvIisDl0Z3Uyzg1Kc1omGLk/YVDwrG4QAk3TOP3qhQCaijXwi6aWptP8Wolab2Dp2FtGdBFb/eL6x9203xZeXIc47p1eDg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 28 On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Alan wrote: > Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote: > > This patch changes the module license handling code to: > > - allow modules to have multiple licenses > > NAK I still think it would be a good idea, but if too many people misinterpret my concept, you can't do that. > > - access GPL symbols if at least one license is GPL-compatible > > NAK > > The legal boundary of a work is not "the file". IMO, the scope of the MODULE_LICENSE is the module. If you intend to ship one binary using _only_ the proprietary license, you'll have to remove the license=GPL-string. Obviously this isn't obvious. :( -- Backups? We doan NEED no steenking baX%^~,VbKx NO CARRIER - 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/