Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

[jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>]

Diego Calleja wrote:

>El Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:27:47 -0600,
>"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@soleranetworks.com> escribió:
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>>NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
>> services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
>> of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
>> Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
>> Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the linux
>> kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
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>So, that means that DSFS runs on userspace? (We can't see the source
>so it'd be nice to know how DSFS works)
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>Also, I'm curious about this piece of code on your patch:
>ftp://ftp.soleranetworks.com/pub/dsfs/datascout-only-2.6.9-06-28-05.patch
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>-		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: module license '%s' taints kernel.\n",
>-		       mod->name, license);
>+//		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: module license '%s' taints kernel.\n",
>+//		       mod->name, license);
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>I mean, nvidia people also use propietary code in the kernel (probably
>violating the GPL anyway) and don't do such things.
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I disagree with the language and the characterization that our 
proprietary user application code is "tainted."

Jeff