Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices

From: John Alvord (jalvo@mbay.net)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 18:40:25 EST


On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:42:41 -0700, David Schwartz
<davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:37:27 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>> If this is about maintainability, why not just a simple flag stating if
>>> source is available or not.
>
>>Available under what terms, NDA'd, subject to unacceptable other rules etc..
>>Its not as simple as it looks
>
> I thought the issue was just whether or not people could get access to the
>source code for debugging purposes. What we really need is a tag that simply
>says, 'anyone can get the source code to this module for debugging purposes
>[from this URL, maybe]'.

URLs go bad and non-responsive regularly,,,

john
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