From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:24:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:24:29 -0400 Received: from mithra.wirex.com ([65.102.14.2]:17424 "HELO mail.wirex.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:24:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAF966C.8040906@wirex.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:24:12 -0700 From: Crispin Cowan Reply-To: Linux Security Module Organization: WireX Communications, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linux Security Module Subject: Re: Binary only module overview Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote I'm composing a list of all existing binary only modules, and I got to a list of 26 different modules ... Hewlet Packard - High level security modules (LSM) SGI - High level security modules (LSM) Wirex - High level security modules (LSM) NOTE: To my knowledge, the above mentioned modules either do not exist or have not been released. The LSM patch itself is entirely GPL'd. The debate thread http://mail.wirex.com/pipermail/linux-security-module/2001-September/002017.html that Greg KH referred to is about whether LSM (security) modules should ever be permitted to be proprietary. Some feel that all LSM modules should be OSD-compliant Open Source software, while others feel that LSM should continue the existing Linux module policy of permitting proprietary modules only if they do not require changes to the Linux kernel (which would make them a derived work of the kernel). This post cc'd and reply-to'd to the LSM mailing list. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html