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Re: The tainted message

From: Keith Owens ([email protected])
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 08:44:48 EST

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:37:32 +1000,
john slee <[email protected]> wrote:

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how about adding an optional tag to modules for a support/faq URL?

It is already there!

MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary FOO P/L - contact someone@somewhere for support");

insmod prints the license text.

purely technical question: does this work with the "compatible" license
strings without making them incompatible? E.g. would this be a compatible license:

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL - contact someone@somewhere for support");

Just that something is GPL doesn't mean I should contact LKML for
support at all :-)

Martin

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purely technical question: does this work with the "compatible" license strings without making them incompatible? E.g. would this be a compatible license:

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL - contact someone@somewhere for support");

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99926682329331&w=2

OK, if I read this correctly, the suggestion of a MODULE_SUPPORT tag
makes a lot of sense. Although, one could (mis)use the MODULE_AUTHOR for it.

Given the sloppyness/lazyness of people/programmes in general, use of
MODULE_LICENSE, MODULE_AUTHOR and MODULE_DESCRIPTION should be enforced at compile time.

Martin

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