It's not legal issues. It's 1 integer and 1 sysctl variable
that allow easy filtering of nvidia and other bugreports.
THAT is the purpose of "tainted". Show in the oops that
binary only modules are used. (this assumes all gpl modules to
have a MODULE_LICENSE() line which doesn't result in code
and isn't loaded into kernel memory; recent kernels have over 99%
coverage for in-kernel drivers and lots of external drivers have
it as well).
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