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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:25:35 +0200
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:48:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 22:02, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > - I have installed no proprietary driver, all loaded drivers
> > > declare to be"GPL" or "Dual BSD/GPL". 
> > 
> > Something you loaded was missing a MODULE_LICENSE tag - modern
> > insmod will warn on this one
> 
> I wrote:
> > I found a good candidate in the Apple HFS module
> 
> Hm, no, I found the real one (although HFS has the problem):
> 
> # modprobe ppp_deflate
> Warning: loading
> /lib/modules/2.4.18+preempt/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o will
> taint the kernel: non-GPL license - BSD without advertisement clause
> 
> I'm pretty sure the "BSD without advertisement clause" license should
> not taint the kernel, should it ?
> 


	* According to Alan Cox, a license of "BSD without advertisement
	clause" is not a suitable free software license. This license type
	allows binary only modules without source code. Any modules in the
	kernel tarball with this license should really be "Dual BSD/GPL".

It would seem, and another poster confirms, that this change has
already been made in 2.4.19-pre*



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