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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:05:09 +0000
From: Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre1
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On Wed, 28, Nov, 2001 at 06:48:13PM -0500, Robert Love spoke thus..
> On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 18:39, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > use "BSD without advertising clause", which causes the kernel to
> > > be
> > > tainted. Shouldn't fs/nls/*.c use "Dual BSD/GPL" or "GPL" instead?
> >
> > Dual BSD/GPL is the correct one.  Not a big issue. Since the GPL
> > allows
> > stuff to be freer than GPL but still GPL its arguably correct too I
> > suspect
>
> I was waiting for confirmation about the license status...without
> getting into what license is correct and legal, the current
> MODULE_LICENSE value taints the kernel.  The attached patch switches
> to
> Dual BSD/GPL.
Do you know what the legal status of the rest of the *.c files in fs/nls
is?  There are still quite a few which have no MODULE_LICENSE tag at all
which causes the kernel to be tainted (IMO) incorrectly.

Mark

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Mark Hymers					 BLFS Editor
markh@linuxfromscratch.org
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