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From: Auke Kok <sofar@foo-projects.org>
To: Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@gmail.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
	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: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:34:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C27908.1000202@foo-projects.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d57814d0702011430l43c03ae1uc950339b6700f859@mail.gmail.com>

Trent Waddington wrote:
> 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.  :)

to me it even screams "bypassing or a digital copyright enforcement system". 
that sounds really close to "D.M.C.A. violation" :)

thank goodness I'm not a laywer...

Auke

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-01 23:34 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
2007-02-01 23:34         ` Auke Kok [this message]
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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