Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:30:10 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! |
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:35:10 -0700 (PDT) > Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote: > > > There is one fundamental problem, and nobody has addressed. > > > > Who will enforce the GPL over DRM violations? > > Since it is a blanket over the entire kernel, and you have formally > > (for the most part) have authorized DRM, thus one assumes you are the only > > one who can pursue in a court of law. > > Unless I am missing something, I was hoping for more of a sparse DRM implementation; not a blanket. > > I was hoping to be able to `modprobe drm` for when I needed to use DRM and likewise `rmmod drm` for when I didn't want it. Maybe I am a little late in this disucssion, but that's just my hopes and whishes.
Unfortunately that's not going to work, since your DRM module cannot trust the kernel it's loaded by.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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