Re: Linuxant/Conexant HSF/HCF Modem Drivers Unlocked

[Andreas Steinmetz]

Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2004 22:37, you wrote:
>
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Oh its almost certainly a criminal offence in the USA - the DMCA for
> > > > example. The \0 stupidity checker needs to go into the kernel.
> > >
> > > Copy protection arms-races are always fun. If we did this, no doubt
> > > some enterprising individual would find that some other value
> > > also has the same effect.  You need to throw out anything else
> > > thats non alphanumeric too.  (plus '/' for 'Dual BSD/GPL' and friends)
> >
> > How about 'GPL\rMy real license'? Which means: yes, you're absolutely
> > right.
>
>
> Not that I care, but wouldn't a simple _licence_length field solve this?

I don't think that a length filed is sufficient. The above example would 
print out on a standard terminal as 'My real license'. To prevent 
license string abuse a quite short (less than 80 characters) length 
limit and restriction to simple printable (i.e. 0x20-0x7e ASCII) 
characters is required.
I would prefer that modules not obeying these restrictions can't be 
loaded into the kernel.
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