On Dec 14, 2006, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you missed the point that my patch prevents valid usages of > non-GPL modules from happening, which is not acceptable.
What if you changed your patch so as to only permit loading of possibly-infringing drivers after some flag in /proc is set, and logging to the console a message explaining (i) why such drivers might be infringing and how to contact the copyright holders to get the infringement stopped, and (ii) how to get it loaded if you believe it's ok. Then the patch would change from a probably-harmful DRM technique to an educational tool, that wouldn't impose any major inconvenience to those who are entitled to use the combination of code that can't be distributed. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
