Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

Marc Boucher
2004-04-30T20:51:07Z

On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote:
>>
>>> In contrast, wine was _written_ to do this emulation, so by
>>> definition
>>> any
>>> "bugs" are in wine itself (although I suspect that wine people
>>> sometimes
>>> would prefer it if Office came with sources ;).
>>
>> The same can be said about DriverLoader.
>
> .. but not abotu the kernel that it depends on.
>
> In other words, if driverloader was a stand-alone project, you could do
> whatever the hell you wanted with it.

To clarify this important point, driverloader is a standalone project,
and structured similarly to the HSF driver (all os-specific code is
open-source allowing it to be used with any kernel or even
theoretically any other x86 operating system).

Because only one logical module is loaded, and a single set of tainted
messages bearable, the \0 MODULE_LICENSE() workaround is unnecessary
and not used in driverloader.

Marc