Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices

Juan Quintela (quintela@mandrakesoft.com)
11 Oct 2001 01:02:06 +0200


>>>>> "alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

hi

alan> Well under the DMCA thats probably a criminal offence with five years in
alan> jail. The truth however is that if you want to lie about licensing or run a
alan> modutils that doesn't do it nobody stops you. Its there primarily to deal
alan> with bug filtering from people who don't know better. Folks who know enough
alan> to subvert the mechanism generally also know better than to post Nvdriver
alan> bugs to l/k.

Never understimate the ability of users to subert that kind of
barriers.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy
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