Re: Tainting kernels for non-GPL or forced modules

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:05:52 +0100 (BST)


> What to do about modules with no license? Complain and taint or
> silently ignore? A lot of modules in -ac14 have no MODULE_LICENSE,
> probably because they have no MODULE_AUTHOR. IMHO the default should
> be complain and taint, even though it will generate lots of newbie
> questions to l-k.

I still have many to do. What would help me no end would be a version of
depmod or similar which warned about modules with

o No description
o No author
o No license tag

Then we can stage a concerted clean up run

Alan
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