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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: "Morgan Collins [Ax0n]" <sirmorcant@morcant.org>,
	tkhoadfdsaf@hotmail.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:27:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31498.1002785237@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16172.1002749316@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <16172.1002749316@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>


kaos@ocs.com.au said:
>  If somebody uses a different string, their license is not GPL. 

We do not care if they use a licence which is not GPL. We only care if they 
use a licence which is not GPL-compatible.

>  To triage bug reports.  Any bug report against a tainted kernel is
> almost certain to be bounced with "your kernel contains code that we
> do not have the source for, send this bug report to the company that
> maintains the non-GPL code".

In the case which started this thread, the non-GPL code in question was part
of the kernel source tree, and we _do_ have the source for it. It was the
BSD-licensed PPP compression code. 

You seem to have claimed that this is not a bug, but that it's intentional.
Are you therefore going to make changes to the build system so that the
static kernel image will boot up marked as tainted if CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y?

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-11  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10  8:06 Tainted Modules Help Notices Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10  8:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10  8:24   ` Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10  8:31   ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 13:50   ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 13:59     ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 14:01       ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 17:30       ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 18:18         ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 20:06           ` Concerned Programmer
2001-10-10 20:28             ` Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 21:28               ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 22:03                 ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-10-11  7:27                 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-10 21:17             ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 23:02               ` Juan Quintela
2001-10-10 23:28                 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-10 22:29                   ` Rob Landley
2001-10-11  2:48                     ` 2.4.11 UDF Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-11  3:26                       ` Craig Whitmore
2001-10-11  8:50               ` Tainted Modules Help Notices Andreas Ferber
2001-10-11  9:25                 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-11  9:35                   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-11  9:41                     ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2001-10-11  9:48                       ` Syed Mohammad Talha
2001-10-11 10:09                       ` Concerned Programmer
2001-10-11 10:37                         ` Alan Cox
2001-10-11 22:42                           ` David Schwartz
2001-10-11 23:40                             ` John Alvord
2001-10-12  1:12                               ` David Schwartz
2001-10-12  1:32                                 ` Robert Love
2001-10-11 12:10                       ` James Sutherland
2001-10-10 14:13     ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 14:18       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 13:10 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-10 14:06 Bonds, Deanna
2001-10-10 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven

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