From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965083AbWLOEyZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965092AbWLOEyZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:25 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33413 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965083AbWLOEyY (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:24 -0500 To: Greg KH Cc: Michael ODonald , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Abolishing the DMCA References: <561312.27000.qm@web58907.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20061214213246.GB9450@suse.de> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:53:55 -0200 In-Reply-To: <20061214213246.GB9450@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Thu\, 14 Dec 2006 13\:32\:46 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dec 14, 2006, Greg KH wrote: > I think you missed the point that my patch prevents valid usages of > non-GPL modules from happening, which is not acceptable. What if you changed your patch so as to only permit loading of possibly-infringing drivers after some flag in /proc is set, and logging to the console a message explaining (i) why such drivers might be infringing and how to contact the copyright holders to get the infringement stopped, and (ii) how to get it loaded if you believe it's ok. Then the patch would change from a probably-harmful DRM technique to an educational tool, that wouldn't impose any major inconvenience to those who are entitled to use the combination of code that can't be distributed. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}