Re: Linuxant/Conexant HSF/HCF Modem Drivers Unlocked

From: Kenneth Aafløy
Date: Fri Oct 29 2004 - 18:02:36 EST


On Friday 29 October 2004 22:37, you wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Oh its almost certainly a criminal offence in the USA - the DMCA for
> > > example. The \0 stupidity checker needs to go into the kernel.
> >
> > Copy protection arms-races are always fun. If we did this, no doubt
> > some enterprising individual would find that some other value
> > also has the same effect. You need to throw out anything else
> > thats non alphanumeric too. (plus '/' for 'Dual BSD/GPL' and friends)
>
> How about 'GPL\rMy real license'? Which means: yes, you're absolutely
> right.

Not that I care, but wouldn't a simple _licence_length field solve this?

Gnight,
Kenneth
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