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

Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-05-01T19:32:09Z

On Sat, 1 May 2004, Marc Boucher wrote:

> Most third-party module suppliers have been confronted with the same
> issue
> and forced to work around it (in other imperfect and sometimes clumsy
> ways).
> One of them redirects the messages to a separate file and appends
> the following notice:
>
> > ********************************************************************
> > * You can safely ignore the above message about tainting the kernel.
> > * It is completely political and means just that the maintainers of
> > * of modutils package dislike software that is not distributed under
> > * an open source license.
> > ********************************************************************

What's the difference between that and the dialog box Microsoft Windows
gives when you try and install an unsigned or non WHQL driver? In fact
they make a much greater deal about it than our one printk.

Zwane