Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:01:42 +1000


On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:59:01 -0400 (EDT),
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Any license not listed in include/linux/module.h is not GPL compatible.
>> That list is currently (2.4.11)
>>
>> "GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later]
>> "GPL and additional rights" [GNU Public License v2 rights and more]
>> "Dual BSD/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or BSD license choice]
>> "Dual MPL/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or Mozilla license choice]
>
>What the hell? BSD without advertisement clause had always been
>GPL-compatible.

Take it up with AC, modutils is just following his list in module.h.

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