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

[Marc Boucher]

On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote:
> > > In contrast, wine was _written_ to do this emulation, so by 
> > > definition
> > > any
> > > "bugs" are in wine itself (although I suspect that wine people
> > > sometimes
> > > would prefer it if Office came with sources ;).
> >
> > The same can be said about DriverLoader.
>
> .. but not abotu the kernel that it depends on.
>
> In other words, if driverloader was a stand-alone project, you could do
> whatever the hell you wanted with it.

To clarify this important point, driverloader is a standalone project, 
and structured similarly to the HSF driver (all os-specific code is 
open-source allowing it to be used with any kernel or even 
theoretically any other x86 operating system).

Because only one logical module is loaded, and a single set of tainted 
messages bearable, the \0 MODULE_LICENSE() workaround is unnecessary 
and not used in driverloader.

Marc

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