From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>,
gene.heskett@verizon.net,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"Rusty Russell (IBM)" <rusty@au1.ibm.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Joy Latten <latten@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: signed kernel modules?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:18:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015211809.GA27783@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097873791.5119.10.camel@krustophenia.net>
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:56:33PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:35, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > You just don't get it. This is policy.
> >
> > Script started on Fri 15 Oct 2004 01:13:59 PM EDT
> > # insmod xxx.ko
> > xxx: module license 'BSD' taints kernel.
> > # exit
> > Script done on Fri 15 Oct 2004 01:14:26 PM EDT
>
> OK, now _this_ is undeniably policy, I would go so far as to call it
> bullshit. There is a fundamental technical reason to have closed source
> modules taint the kernel, because you cannot debug a closed source
> module.
If you have a BSD licensed module, you do not have to provide the source
code for it.
Dual BSD/GPL licensed modules do not change the taint flag.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-10-11 15:11 ` Fw: signed kernel modules? David Howells
2004-10-11 15:15 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-11 22:34 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-12 8:35 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-12 19:08 ` Greg KH
2004-10-12 19:16 ` David Howells
2004-10-12 20:43 ` David Howells
2004-10-13 0:20 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 8:24 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-13 0:11 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 9:16 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-13 21:21 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 9:24 ` David Howells
2004-10-13 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 22:40 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-14 10:17 ` David Howells
2004-10-15 0:28 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-14 23:44 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 1:00 ` Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-10-13 21:18 ` David Howells
2004-10-13 21:51 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 11:12 ` David Howells
2004-10-14 12:01 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 12:11 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 14:22 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 14:30 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 21:03 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 21:24 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 21:36 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 21:52 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-14 22:15 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 22:32 ` David Howells
2004-10-14 22:38 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-14 12:14 ` David Howells
2004-10-14 13:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 14:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-14 14:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 15:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 15:50 ` Dave Jones
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2004-10-14 18:20 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-14 18:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 18:46 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-14 19:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 19:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-14 21:13 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-18 1:56 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-13 23:01 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-14 11:02 ` David Howells
2004-10-15 0:47 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-14 18:09 ` David Howells
2004-10-15 11:12 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-15 12:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 12:31 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-15 15:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-15 16:17 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-15 16:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 17:08 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-15 17:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 20:56 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-15 21:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-10-15 21:34 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-15 22:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 12:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 13:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-10-18 14:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 16:33 ` Greg KH
2004-10-18 17:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-18 17:28 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-15 17:46 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-15 20:11 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-17 20:18 ` Thomas Weber
2004-10-17 20:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-17 21:25 ` Thomas Weber
2004-10-15 12:48 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-15 15:51 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-15 14:01 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-15 14:28 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-15 15:54 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-15 16:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-14 18:44 ` Thomas Weber
2004-10-15 15:37 Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-15 16:05 ` Olivier Galibert
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[not found] ` <fa.jtpibm5.1l4ki17@ifi.uio.no>
2004-10-17 15:13 ` Bodo Eggert
2004-10-18 11:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-23 10:19 ` Bodo Eggert
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