Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 16:03:49 EST




On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Marc Boucher wrote:
> >
> > In other words, if driverloader was a stand-alone project, you could do
> > whatever the hell you wanted with it.
>
> To clarify this important point, driverloader is a standalone project,
> and structured similarly to the HSF driver (all os-specific code is
> open-source allowing it to be used with any kernel or even
> theoretically any other x86 operating system).

The Linux-centric parts are absolutely NOT stand-alone, and one big part
of that Linux-centric stuff is that magic line that says MODULE_LICENSE().

In other words, you're a weasel.

Linus
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