Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
From: Trent Waddington
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 19:51:46 EST
On 2/2/07, Tomas Carnecky <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can't you put this somewhere into the documentation: it's our kernel,
play by our rules, and our rules are, the license is what is visible in
'printf(license)'?
Here I was thinking the rules were: all modules must be GPL and the
jerks who make proprietary modules are just blatantly breaking the
law. But you're right, the MODULE_LICENSE tag really does imply that
licenses other than the GPL are ok.
Trent
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