Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:06:03 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Tainted Modules Help Notices | From | "Morgan Collins [Ax0n]" <> |
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After compiling 2.4.11 I noticed modprobe picking up some of the tainted modules that were marked in the update.
What surprised me was the PPP compression modules, I didn't use PPP in 2.4.10 so maybe the notice was there in 2.4.10, but I didn't use them so I didn't see it. I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. BSD compression, BSD license... doh... :>
I do however at times use the nls modules, and I see a great deal of them are BSD-NAC licensed. It's also nice to have ipchains_core laying around for compatibility at times as well. If I had known this at compile time I would have opted not to compile them, as modules or otherwise. Knowing now that there are modules in the kernel build tree that are not GPLed, and since I don't know which ones, I will grep for MODULE_LICENSE first from now on.
After this discovery, I would like to ask opinions on including licensing terms in item/module help files. It would be very convient if under dpt_i2o help it said that it was licensed under BSD-NAC.
-- Morgan Collins [Ax0n] http://sirmorcant.morcant.org Software is something like a machine, and something like mathematics, and something like language, and something like thought, and art, and information.... but software is not in fact any of those other things.
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