From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964994AbVIAAFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:05:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964995AbVIAAFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:05:20 -0400 Received: from [67.137.28.189] ([67.137.28.189]:65459 "EHLO vger") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964994AbVIAAFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:05:20 -0400 Message-ID: <43163430.7010107@utah-nac.org> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:50:24 -0600 From: jmerkey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Calleja Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, arjan@infradead.org, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches References: <4315DBE7.7080002@soleranetworks.com> <4315E88D.9020603@soleranetworks.com> <1125514716.3213.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4315F04D.5050705@soleranetworks.com> <200508312128.j7VLST47010653@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <431611B7.6000103@soleranetworks.com> <431612C3.7020903@soleranetworks.com> <20050901012218.02c79560.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050901012218.02c79560.diegocg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Diego Calleja wrote: >El Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:27:47 -0600, >"Jeff V. Merkey" escribió: > > > >> >>NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel >> services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use >> of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". >> Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software >> Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the linux >> kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. >> >> > >So, that means that DSFS runs on userspace? (We can't see the source >so it'd be nice to know how DSFS works) > >Also, I'm curious about this piece of code on your patch: >ftp://ftp.soleranetworks.com/pub/dsfs/datascout-only-2.6.9-06-28-05.patch > >- printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: module license '%s' taints kernel.\n", >- mod->name, license); >+// printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: module license '%s' taints kernel.\n", >+// mod->name, license); > >I mean, nvidia people also use propietary code in the kernel (probably >violating the GPL anyway) and don't do such things. > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > I disagree with the language and the characterization that our proprietary user application code is "tainted." Jeff