Re: No Licence on driver load

From: Philipp Thomas (philippt@t-online.de)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 09:48:24 EST

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Jack.Bloch@icn.siemens.com [ Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:35:29 -0400]:

>I load my own device driver into a 2.4.18-3 Kernel and get the following
>message.
>
>"Warning Loading Icdeva0s.o will taint the Kernel : No Licence"
>
>How do you stop this?

By adding a statement that states the license of your code:

MODULE_LICENSE("<license>");

to your driver. See include/linux/module.h for the possible values
<license> may have.

Philipp

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