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

[Chris Friesen]

Marc Boucher wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:

> > 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.
>
>
> It is a purely technical workaround. There is nothing misleading to the 
> human eye,

modinfo reports a GPL license, and the kernel does not report itself as tainted.  That's misleading.

> and the GPL directory isn't empty; it is included in full in our generic 
> .tar.gz, rpm and
> .deb packages.

My apologies.  I was going on the word of the original poster.

Chris
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