From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: <root@chaos.analogic.com>, "'James Clark'" <jimwclark@ntlworld.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Driver Model
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:36:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301c37228$bbc89950$294b82ce@stuartm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309021620050.4709@chaos>
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard B. Johnson
> sources are available. If the driver does not contain the appropriate
> MODULE_LICENSE() string, then several tools will show "tainted" so
If the MODULE_LICENSE() macro is what determines taint, what's to
prevent a company from compiling their driver in their own kernel tree
with that macro and releasing it binary-only? Wouldn't that module
then be taint-free?
..Stu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 18:43 Driver Model James Clark
2003-09-02 19:13 ` Robert Love
2003-09-02 20:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-03 14:36 ` Stuart MacDonald [this message]
2003-09-03 14:52 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-09-03 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 15:13 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 15:33 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2003-09-03 15:50 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 16:02 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2003-09-03 17:58 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-09-03 16:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-03 15:50 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2003-09-03 22:41 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 15:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-02 21:29 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-02 21:44 ` James Clark
2003-09-02 22:05 ` Greg KH
2003-09-02 22:08 ` Robert Love
2003-09-02 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-02 23:52 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 0:20 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-03 17:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 18:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-04 12:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-09-03 13:10 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <rtHg.3n0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <rK5y.1xN.25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-03 18:42 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-03 19:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 22:41 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-03 23:11 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-03 23:33 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-04 1:38 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-04 3:01 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-04 14:21 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-04 1:37 ` Andre Hedrick
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