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    SubjectRE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
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    Hello,

    > will be written to the object file will be "license=GPL\0for
    > nothing\0".
    > When this is interpreted back again in the kernel module
    > loader, it is
    > read as "license=GPL", having circumvented the loading mechanism and
    > having wrongfully access to GPL symbols. According to Alexey [
    > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/233 ], LinuxAnt is one vendor to use
    > this trick.

    If that is really one important point, why not simply adding a :
    MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE("yes|no")
    and a
    MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LIKE_LICENSE("yes|no")

    or use 0 and 1 instead of yes and no, and thus clearly avoid all the
    C string mess ?

    Regards,
    Paul

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