From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261947AbUEAT1q (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 15:27:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261980AbUEAT1p (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 15:27:45 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([69.30.125.51]:55213 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261947AbUEAT1o (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 15:27:44 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 12:27:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com To: Marc Boucher cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Tim Connors , "'lkml - Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license In-Reply-To: <772768DC-9BA3-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> Message-ID: References: <009701c42edf$25e47390$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> <90DD8A88-9AE2-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> <6900000.1083388078@[10.10.2.4]> <772768DC-9BA3-11D8-B83D-000A95BCAC26@linuxant.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 1 May 2004, Marc Boucher wrote: > One of them redirects the messages to a separate file and appends > the following notice: > > > ******************************************************************** > > * You can safely ignore the above message about tainting the kernel. > > * It is completely political and means just that the maintainers of > > * of modutils package dislike software that is not distributed under > > * an open source license. > > ******************************************************************** Right that you're there, you might want also to add something like: ************************************************************************* * Do not even try to report your problems with the Linux kernel to software * maintainers at linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org since they cannot do anything * about modules they do not have the source of. Reports your problems at: * * LIST-OF-BINARY-MODULES-DROPPERS-EMAIL-ADDRESSES ************************************************************************* #define MODULE_CONTACT(...) - Davide