In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301022025200.1700-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri
te:
>
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > Linus, your options:
> > 1) Drop the patch and leave well enough alone.
> > 2) Just keep the module licence taint check.
> > 3) Say OK to the whole thing (once I've tested it against latest bk).
>
> Hmm.. Can you make the "module_is_gpl()" thing a load-time check, and
> instead of carrying the license string along at run-time, you just carry
> the "I'm GPL-ok'd" bit along.
Just call it ".init.license" instead of ".license" and you're done:
it's never used at runtime (well, setting the mod->license field to
NULL after init to make sure noone abuses it might make sense).
I'll test it now...
Rusty.
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