From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Tonnerre Anklin <thunder@keepsake.ch>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>,
Werner Cornelius <werner@isdn4linux.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [I4L] hfcpci missing MODULE_LICENSE
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:22:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311280322.hAS3M602016305@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:00:03 +0100." <20031128020003.GG1635@dbintra.dmz.lightweight.ods.org>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:00:03 +0100, Tonnerre Anklin <thunder@keepsake.ch> said:
> If this is compiled as a module and then loaded, the kernel is tainted
> because of a missing module license.
True. However..
> Also, according to many european laws, software which is released
> under no license must not be used.
No way to verify this. I mostly understand the US copyright code as
it impacts my work, but have no idea what the other side of that puddle
does legally (and for that matter, I don't claim to know what the other
side of the other, even bigger, puddle is)...
> <URL:http://keepsake.keepsake.ch/~thunder/noyau/2.6.0-test11-ta1/hfcpci_license.xml>
which says: "I guess the license is meant to be GPL." And so it was almost
certainly intended to be.
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>/Werner Cornelius <werner@isdn4linux.de>");
Unfortunately, neither you nor I nor anybody but Kai or Werner (or their
assignees) can do this, as I understand the law. The only proper resolutions
here are to get one of them to make some sort of statement (I suspect even a
"Yea, it's GPL, we just forgot the macro" e-mail from one of them would be good
enough), or to pull the code out of the 2.6.0 tree till it *is* resolved.
(Sorry to be a stickler, but this is the sort of thing that Darl and
company would love to make a point about - we *do* need to keep careful
track of the actual source and license status of every line....)
Kai? Werner? You out there?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-28 2:00 [I4L] hfcpci missing MODULE_LICENSE Tonnerre Anklin
2003-11-28 3:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2003-11-28 23:40 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-11-28 23:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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