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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

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