Re: The tainted message

Martin Knoblauch (Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de)
Thu, 02 May 2002 09:35:36 +0200

> Re: The tainted message
>
> From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
> Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 08:44:48 EST
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:37:32 +1000,
> john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net> wrote:
> >how about adding an optional tag to modules for a support/faq URL?
>
> It is already there!
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary FOO P/L - contact someone@somewhere for support");
>
> insmod prints the license text.
>

purely technical question: does this work with the "compatible" license
strings without making them incompatible? E.g. would this be a
compatible license:

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL - contact someone@somewhere for support");

Just that something is GPL doesn't mean I should contact LKML for
support at all :-)

Martin

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