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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: kwooten@home.com (Kevin D. Wooten)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Module Licensing?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:22:33 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15yV6P-0005sD-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01102920463500.03524@newton.cevio.com> from "Kevin D. Wooten" at Oct 29, 2001 08:46:35 PM

> After reading the posts about the MODULE_LICENSE macro, I am in disbelief. I 
> was under the impression that one could write a "closed-source" module and 
> distribute it in binary form, and be in compliance. Please tell me I am 

Providing your work constitutes a seperate work that isn't a derivative
work. Thats a lawyer definition and one for lawyers

> wrong? We use Linux as a platform for some data acquisition, and we are 
> currently distributing ( in very limited quantity to people who would already 
> have signed an NDA ) modules that currently have no official license as yet.
> We are researching which license to use, but according to these post's we 
> have almost no choice, Open Source or not at all!

The tag is purely so we can tell free stuff apart. If you tag a module

MODULE_LICENSE("(c) Copyright EvilCorp, All rights wronged");

it will still load but the user will be advised not to report bugs to the
kernel lists and the like. The oops data will similarly be marked "tainted"
so that we can discard it.

It's a filter so we don't have to handle bugs in your driver, nothing more.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-30  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-30  3:46 Module Licensing? Kevin D. Wooten
2001-10-30  4:08 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-30  4:58   ` TimO
2001-10-30  5:10     ` Ben Greear
2001-10-30  7:24     ` Kevin D. Wooten
2001-10-30 17:27     ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-30 23:10       ` Alan Cox
2001-10-31  0:13         ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-31  0:25           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-31 16:53             ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-31 17:10               ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 17:22                 ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-31 17:27                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 18:34                     ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-31 18:44                       ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 18:53                         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 20:08                     ` Craig Milo Rogers
2001-10-31 17:32                   ` dean gaudet
2001-10-31 19:55                   ` [OT] " Craig Milo Rogers
2001-10-31 21:42                     ` Cort Dougan
2001-10-31 23:47                       ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-31 23:54                         ` Larry McVoy
2001-11-01  0:10                           ` Jamie Lokier
2001-11-01  0:43                       ` Alan Cox
2001-11-01 23:52                         ` n0ano
2001-10-31 17:29                 ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-31 17:37                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 18:31                     ` LLX
2001-11-08  0:36                       ` drizzt.dourden
2001-11-08 12:41                         ` Alan Cox
2001-11-08 13:19                           ` Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-08 14:53                             ` Module Licensing? (thinking a little more) Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-08 15:56                               ` Doug McNaught
2001-11-08 17:00                                 ` Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-08 17:18                                   ` Russell King
2001-11-08 17:47                                     ` Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-09  7:50                                       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-10 18:09                                     ` QuoteMstr - Danny Colascione
2001-11-08 17:29                                   ` Doug McNaught
2001-11-08 19:28                                     ` drizzt.dourden
2001-10-31 20:15                     ` Module Licensing? Craig Milo Rogers
2001-10-31 19:49                 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2001-11-04  3:37                 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-10-31 17:11               ` Alan Cox
2001-11-05  4:40       ` [file interface] " Roger Larsson
2001-10-30  9:22 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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