Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 12:48:27 EST


Marc Boucher wrote:

On Apr 27, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Adam Jaskiewicz wrote:

Would it not be better to simply place a notice in the readme explaining what
the error messages mean, rather than working around the liscense checking
code? Educate the users, rather than fibbing.


Good idea. We will try to clarify the matter in the docs for the next release.
A lot of users don't read them though, so a proper fix remains necessary..

Does your company honestly feel that misleading the module loading tools is actually the proper way to work around the issue of repetitive warning messages? This is blatently misleading and does not reflect well, especially when the "GPL" directory mentioned in the source string is actually empty.

A "proper fix" begins with not attempting to mislead the kernel/tools about the license...

Chris

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