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From: Greg KH <gregkh <at> suse.de>
Subject: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2006-12-13 22:09:11 GMT (1 year, 38 weeks, 3 days, 7 hours and 31 minutes ago)
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:47:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:32:50 -0800
> Martin Bligh <mbligh <at> mbligh.org> wrote:
> 
> > So let's come out and ban binary modules, rather than pussyfooting
> > around, if that's what we actually want to do.
> 
> Give people 12 months warning (time to work out what they're going to do,
> talk with the legal dept, etc) then make the kernel load only GPL-tagged
> modules.
> 
> I think I'd favour that.  It would aid those people who are trying to
> obtain device specs, and who are persuading organisations to GPL their drivers.

Ok, I have no objection to that at all.  I'll whip up such a patch in a
bit to spit out kernel log messages whenever such a module is loaded so
that people have some warning.

thanks,

greg k-h