Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:30:03 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license |
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Marc Boucher wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> Does your company honestly feel that misleading the module loading >> tools is actually the proper way to work around the issue of >> repetitive warning messages? This is blatently misleading and does >> not reflect well, especially when the "GPL" directory mentioned in the >> source string is actually empty. > > > It is a purely technical workaround. There is nothing misleading to the > human eye,
modinfo reports a GPL license, and the kernel does not report itself as tainted. That's misleading.
> and the GPL directory isn't empty; it is included in full in our generic > .tar.gz, rpm and > .deb packages.
My apologies. I was going on the word of the original poster.
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