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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: if you have done any kernel dev work please contact me offlist |
Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:35:55 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080420) |
Karl Goetz wrote:
I think it does, but you really have to look for it. Ordinary users would never see this.On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:56 -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:Paul O'Malley wrote:I have a non brownie point job that needs doing, maybe you can influence others to work on this issue as I see it also.Is this, or a tool like WGA [1] (but non-evil) that would notify (and only notify) the user if non-GPLv2 kernel modules were loaded be something people would be interested in?I thought Linux already printed "module is tainted" if it detected something with proprietary code - it certainly used to. kk
Also, I don't know how consistently the MODULE_LICENSE macro is used, it doesn't take sourceless blobs into account and it can be abused [1].
However, if it is used consistently, we could use it to remove some non-free modules automatically. But maybe this has already been done for use with the linux-restricted-modules package, I don't know.
[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/2991
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