Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Apr 2002 18:06:03 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... |
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At 17:29 04/04/02, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>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.
I guess so. Sorry, IANAL and I live in a relatively free country so I forgot about that place over the pond... (-:
Anton
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