[OpenAFS-devel] [Patch] add module license macro to Linux kernel module

[Russ Allbery]

Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> writes:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:34:53AM -0400, Chaskiel Grundman wrote:

>> My objection to doing this is that while it will help some users, it
>> also in sense legitimizes the whole license checking scheme, and I'd
>> rather we didn't help do that.

> The license-checking scheme is *there*, and it's as legitimate as it's
> ever going to get. I think having a open source / free software,
> non-GPL, clearly non-derived work correctly labelled actually does more
> to help than hurt, because currently, pretty much all
> widely-talked-about examples are actually proprietary code.

Yeah, someone just filed a Debian bug over this because they were confused
(thinking that tainted == non-free), and having the IBM Public License
string in there would probably have resolved their confusion.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>