Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762308AbYFWSQJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:16:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761845AbYFWSP1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:15:27 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33135 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761753AbYFWSPV (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:15:21 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:15:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080623050118.GA22852@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: thrashbarg.mansr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (Educational Television, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5KPEfdOtpmVLW8E+gyxpePb23BA= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 20 Greg KH writes: > Hi, > > As part of the Linux Foundation Technical board, we confront the issue > of closed source Linux kernel modules all the time, and we wanted to do > something that could be seen as a general "public statement" about them > that is easy to understand and point to when people have questions. > > So, after working on this for a while, and asking some of the other > major contributors and maintainers of the kernel, what we have is below. > [...] I can't help noticing Linus Torvalds is missing from the list of names... -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com -- 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/