Re: [PATCH ??] Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

Florin Malita
2006-10-27T23:12:12Z

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 18:56 -0400, ysgrifennodd Florin Malita:
>
>> Also, since driverloader is not GPL-compatible (MODULE_LICENSE("see
>> LICENSE file; Copyright (c)2003-2004 Linuxant inc.")), that check is
>> redundant. How about removing it (applies on top of Randy's patch)?
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
>>
>
> NAK
>
> Older versions of Linuxant's driverloader claim GPL\0some other text and
> systematically set out to abuse the license tag code. We should continue
> to carry the code for this.
>

Older versions of driverloader won't even build for recent kernels
(actually even the latest - 2.34 - fails with 2.6.19-rc3). Do you know
of any driverloader version that actually works with 2.6.18+ and
misrepresents its license? Seems to me they gave up that practice and
currently the check is useless but if you want to keep it as a statement
I can understand that :)

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