Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:27:17 +0100 |
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kaos@ocs.com.au said: > If somebody uses a different string, their license is not GPL.
We do not care if they use a licence which is not GPL. We only care if they use a licence which is not GPL-compatible.
> To triage bug reports. Any bug report against a tainted kernel is > almost certain to be bounced with "your kernel contains code that we > do not have the source for, send this bug report to the company that > maintains the non-GPL code".
In the case which started this thread, the non-GPL code in question was part of the kernel source tree, and we _do_ have the source for it. It was the BSD-licensed PPP compression code.
You seem to have claimed that this is not a bug, but that it's intentional. Are you therefore going to make changes to the build system so that the static kernel image will boot up marked as tainted if CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y?
-- dwmw2
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