From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: typo@shaw.ca,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Subject: Re: Linuxant/Conexant HSF/HCF Modem Drivers Unlocked
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:00:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041029200011.GA18508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099057814.13068.29.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-10-29 at 13:43, Chad Christopher Giffin wrote:
> > I still find myself deeply troubled and questioning the legalities of
> > using "GPL\0[...]" in the license string of a non-GPL module. As it is
> > a blatant lie.
>
> Oh its almost certainly a criminal offence in the USA - the DMCA for
> example. The \0 stupidity checker needs to go into the kernel.
Copy protection arms-races are always fun. If we did this, no doubt
some enterprising individual would find that some other value
also has the same effect. You need to throw out anything else
thats non alphanumeric too. (plus '/' for 'Dual BSD/GPL' and friends)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 6:52 Linuxant/Conexant HSF/HCF Modem Drivers Unlocked Chad Christopher Giffin
2004-10-29 11:18 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-29 12:43 ` Chad Christopher Giffin
2004-10-29 12:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-29 13:50 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-29 20:00 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-10-29 20:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-29 20:37 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-10-29 22:46 ` Kenneth Aafløy
2004-10-29 22:54 ` Andreas Steinmetz
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