Re: [BUG] 2.4.19-rc5 with ipchains module

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 05:28:24 EST


On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> ipchains isn't able to be loaded as a module, even there is no iptables
> loaded. .config is attached.
>
> root@codeman:[/] > modprobe ipchains
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.19-rc5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o
> will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - BSD without advertisement clause
>...

The following trivial patch taken from 2.4.20-pre1-ac1 fixes it:

--- linux.20pre1/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains_core.c 2002-08-06 15:40:34.000000000 +0100
+++ linux.20pre1-ac1/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains_core.c 2002-08-06 15:41:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -1779,4 +1779,4 @@
 #endif
         return ret;
 }
-MODULE_LICENSE("BSD without advertisement clause");
+MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

Marcelo:
Please include this patch in 2.4.20.

cu
Adrian

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