Re: Linuxant/Conexant HSF/HCF Modem Drivers Unlocked

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Gwe, 2004-10-29 at 13:43, Chad Christopher Giffin wrote:
 > > I still find myself deeply troubled and questioning the legalities of
 > > using "GPL\0[...]" in the license string of a non-GPL module.  As it is
 > > a blatant lie.  
 > 
 > 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)

		Dave

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