Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:28:32 -0600 | Subject | Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices |
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On Oct 11, 2001 01:02 +0200, Juan Quintela wrote: > >>>>> "alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > alan> Well under the DMCA thats probably a criminal offence with five years in > alan> jail. The truth however is that if you want to lie about licensing or > alan> run a modutils that doesn't do it nobody stops you. Its there primarily > alan> to deal with bug filtering from people who don't know better. Folks who > alan> know enough to subvert the mechanism generally also know better than to > alan> post Nvdriver bugs to l/k. > > Never understimate the ability of users to subert that kind of > barriers.
Given that "subversion" will only mean editing the text output of ksymoops to not display the "tainted" flag, I don't see it to be a big barrier to entry. If it is in the FAQ (or documented elsewhere) that "if ksymoops says 'tainted: 1' submit your bug reports only to the vendor" it will be a small matter to delete that line, and if this is NOT documented anywhere it will not reduce the number of bug submissions, which was the original goal.
I don't think we need to be mucking with "GPL vs. BSD" or anything, but rather "source available or not" as the criterion for a tainted module. Heaven forbid that using some driver currently in the kernel sources marks your kernel as tainted, it would make the whole thing useless.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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