From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423097AbXBBDNE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:13:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423098AbXBBDNE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:13:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:52083 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423097AbXBBDND (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:13:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick From: Arjan van de Ven To: Trent Waddington Cc: Tomas Carnecky , Jon Masters , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan In-Reply-To: <3d57814d0702011651s5d5f9dafuc26369fab99ad5cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <45C2670F.5000003@jonmasters.org> <45C2832F.10603@dbservice.com> <3d57814d0702011651s5d5f9dafuc26369fab99ad5cf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:12:35 +0100 Message-Id: <1170385955.3073.884.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > But you're right, the MODULE_LICENSE tag really does imply that > licenses other than the GPL are ok. yup.. BSD licensed modules are clearly ok as well..