From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 03:35:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 03:35:45 -0400 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:9643 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 03:35:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD0EC48.A0F13F53@TeraPort.de> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:35:36 +0200 From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: m.knoblauch@TeraPort.de Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kaos@ocs.com.au CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: The tainted message X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 05/02/2002 09:35:37 AM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 05/02/2002 09:35:45 AM, Serialize complete at 05/02/2002 09:35:45 AM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Re: The tainted message > > From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au) > Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 08:44:48 EST > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:37:32 +1000, > john slee wrote: > >how about adding an optional tag to modules for a support/faq URL? > > It is already there! > > MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary FOO P/L - contact someone@somewhere for support"); > > insmod prints the license text. > purely technical question: does this work with the "compatible" license strings without making them incompatible? E.g. would this be a compatible license: MODULE_LICENSE("GPL - contact someone@somewhere for support"); Just that something is GPL doesn't mean I should contact LKML for support at all :-) Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759