Re: The tainted message

Martin Knoblauch
2002-05-02T13:08:13Z

Keith Owens wrote:
>
> On Thu, 02 May 2002 09:35:36 +0200,
> Martin Knoblauch <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de> wrote:
> > purely technical question: does this work with the "compatible" license
> >strings without making them incompatible? E.g. would this be a
> >compatible license:
> >
> >MODULE_LICENSE("GPL - contact someone@somewhere for support");
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99926682329331&w=2

OK, if I read this correctly, the suggestion of a MODULE_SUPPORT tag
makes a lot of sense. Although, one could (mis)use the MODULE_AUTHOR for
it.

Given the sloppyness/lazyness of people/programmes in general, use of
MODULE_LICENSE, MODULE_AUTHOR and MODULE_DESCRIPTION should be enforced
at compile time.

Martin
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