Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc Boucher <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:39:01 -0400 |
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On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote: >> >>> In contrast, wine was _written_ to do this emulation, so by >>> definition >>> any >>> "bugs" are in wine itself (although I suspect that wine people >>> sometimes >>> would prefer it if Office came with sources ;). >> >> The same can be said about DriverLoader. > > .. but not abotu the kernel that it depends on. > > In other words, if driverloader was a stand-alone project, you could do > whatever the hell you wanted with it.
To clarify this important point, driverloader is a standalone project, and structured similarly to the HSF driver (all os-specific code is open-source allowing it to be used with any kernel or even theoretically any other x86 operating system).
Because only one logical module is loaded, and a single set of tainted messages bearable, the \0 MODULE_LICENSE() workaround is unnecessary and not used in driverloader.
Marc
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