Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:29:39 -0500 (EST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... |
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Both or these aren't really practical once you think it through. Don't > forget that each binary module can be wrapped by an GPL-module which the > kernel cannot do anything at all about and the kernel would never even > know a binary only module was loaded because the GPL module does it. > There is no such thing as security... This kind of thing is already in > use by at least two companies I know of (i.e. using open sourced glue > modules to binary only code) so it is not just a theory I am making > up...
there are countries where this might be considered a 'circumvention of a technological measure' that controls access to a work. Law enforcement is not the duty of the copyright holders. There is no such thing as a burglar-safe house either.
Ingo
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