Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices

Alexander Viro
2001-10-10T14:18:18Z

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> kaos@ocs.com.au said:
> > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > BSD-licensed modules shouldn't mark the kernel as tainted. If they do,
> > > that's surely a bug.
>
> > Any license not listed in include/linux/module.h is not GPL
> > compatible. That list is currently (2.4.11)
>
> In the world I live in, the BSD licence without the advertising clause is
> GPL compatible.

So is LGPL, for that matter. And yes, it _does_ make sense, especially
for headers.