Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@gmail.com>,
	Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:15:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C2D71A.8030209@jonmasters.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170385955.3073.884.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>  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..

So I guess we're going to go with Jan's change then.

I just wanted to discuss this briefly since I'm very keen for the kernel 
not to enforce legal/DRM type policy at all - this isn't quite the same 
discussion as we've had previously but the point remains: it should be 
for people to realize when they are violating a license as software 
unfortunately cannot ever be intelligent to catch all the baddies.

Personally, I am less worried if people use an obvious "PROPRIETARY" 
label because they're at least admitting and saying it how it is - then 
if later it can be shown that they are in fact violating kernel 
copyright, they've helped to sign their own death warrant :-)

Jon.