Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:10:16 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices |
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Pekka Pietikäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:35:34AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > How about > > > > "BSD (included in kernel source)" > > > > to make clear that this is part of the distributed kernel _sources_. > > > > "included in kernel" could also be a 3rd party binary only driver > > added by a Linux distribution vendor. > Or even something like "BSD (unmodified source freely available)", which > would cover 3rd party drivers as well.
"BSD (GPL compatible)"? Or a more generic "Other GPL compatible"?
For that matter, it's not GPL compatibility that matters here, it's source availability for debugging purposes; AIUI, even an "old-style BSD" module shouldn't taint the kernel.
Better still, rather than the licensing details, have the source URL. Either MODULE_SOURCE_URL("http://example.com/drivers/linux/scsi.html") or MODULE_BINARY_ONLY, with the latter tainting the kernel since the source is not *freely* available?
James. -- "Our attitude with TCP/IP is, `Hey, we'll do it, but don't make a big system, because we can't fix it if it breaks -- nobody can.'"
"TCP/IP is OK if you've got a little informal club, and it doesn't make any difference if it takes a while to fix it." -- Ken Olson, in Digital News, 1988
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