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Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote: > > >>At the same time, I think that the "community" should, without >>relinquishing its principles, be less eager before getting the facts to >>attack people and companies trying to help in good faith, and be more >>realistic when it comes to satisfying practical needs of ordinary >>users. > > > I wouldn't be averse to changing the text the kernel prints > when loading a module with an incompatible license. If the > text "$MOD_FOO: module license '$BLAH' taints kernel." upsets > the users, it's easy enough to change it. > > How about the following? > > "Due to $MOD_FOO's license ($BLAH), the Linux kernel community > cannot resolve problems you may encounter. Please contact > $MODULE_VENDOR for support issues." Sounds very "politically correct", but certainly more descriptive and less alarming. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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