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From: "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@gmail.com>
To: "Jon Masters" <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:30:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d57814d0702011430l43c03ae1uc950339b6700f859@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C2670F.5000003@jonmasters.org>
On 2/2/07, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:
> Ok. I totally dig the *idea* here - I mean, this issue has been ongoing
> for a long time now. But I'd like to see a few comments as to whether we
> need a technological mechanism here to enforce the obvious. To me, it
> just seems totally obvious (any legal comment?) that early C string
> termination is undermining the intent of the MODULE_LICENSE tag.
I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you exactly what a lawyer would say:
"well, ya know, it's hard to say when it comes to these issues"
that's the answer to *any* copyright question. :)
Trent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-01 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 0:41 [PATCH] Blacklist hsfmodem module Alexey Dobriyan
2006-11-01 11:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-01 21:20 ` [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-01 21:28 ` [m-i-t part] " Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-01 21:55 ` [PATCH] " Randy Dunlap
2007-02-01 22:17 ` Jon Masters
2007-02-01 22:30 ` Trent Waddington [this message]
2007-02-01 23:34 ` Auke Kok
2007-02-02 8:24 ` David Schwartz
2007-02-02 10:45 ` Helge Hafting
2007-02-03 18:31 ` David Schwartz
2007-02-03 20:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-03 22:21 ` Alan
2007-02-03 23:32 ` Jon Masters
2007-02-04 0:05 ` Alan
2007-02-04 7:56 ` David Schwartz
2007-02-07 12:18 ` Helge Hafting
2007-02-07 18:56 ` David Schwartz
2007-02-12 15:50 ` Helge Hafting
2007-02-12 16:42 ` Alan
2007-02-12 22:37 ` David Schwartz
2007-02-02 0:17 ` Tomas Carnecky
2007-02-02 0:51 ` Trent Waddington
2007-02-02 2:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-02 3:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-02 6:15 ` Jon Masters
2007-02-02 14:53 ` Paul Rolland
2007-02-02 15:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-02 16:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-02 17:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-02 17:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-02 19:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-03 1:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-03 1:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-02 18:37 ` Paul Rolland
2007-02-02 19:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-04 8:14 ` Paul Rolland
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