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 09:08:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:08:12 -0400 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:18859 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:08:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD13A35.1036639@TeraPort.de> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 15:08:05 +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: Keith Owens CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: The tainted message In-Reply-To: <28821.1020340504@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 05/02/2002 03:08:05 PM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 05/02/2002 03:08:11 PM, Serialize complete at 05/02/2002 03:08:11 PM 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 Keith Owens wrote: > > On Thu, 02 May 2002 09:35:36 +0200, > Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > 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"); > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99926682329331&w=2 OK, if I read this correctly, the suggestion of a MODULE_SUPPORT tag makes a lot of sense. Although, one could (mis)use the MODULE_AUTHOR for it. Given the sloppyness/lazyness of people/programmes in general, use of MODULE_LICENSE, MODULE_AUTHOR and MODULE_DESCRIPTION should be enforced at compile time. 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