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

[Davide Libenzi]

On Sat, 1 May 2004, Marc Boucher wrote:

> One of them redirects the messages to a separate file and appends
> the following notice:
> 
>  > ********************************************************************
>  > * You can safely ignore the above message about tainting the kernel.
>  > * It is completely political and means just that the maintainers of
>  > * of modutils package dislike software that is not distributed under
>  > * an open source license.
>  > ********************************************************************

Right that you're there, you might want also to add something like:

*************************************************************************
* Do not even try to report your problems with the Linux kernel to software
* maintainers at linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx since they cannot do anything
* about modules they do not have the source of. Reports your problems at:
*
* LIST-OF-BINARY-MODULES-DROPPERS-EMAIL-ADDRESSES
*************************************************************************

#define MODULE_CONTACT(...)



- Davide

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