Re: Generic modules documentation is outdated

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Yann Dirson wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:48:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 22:02, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > - I have installed no proprietary driver, all loaded drivers declare to be
> > > "GPL" or "Dual BSD/GPL". 
> > 
> > Something you loaded was missing a MODULE_LICENSE tag - modern insmod
> > will warn on this one
> 
> I wrote:
> > I found a good candidate in the Apple HFS module
> 
> Hm, no, I found the real one (although HFS has the problem):
> 
> # modprobe ppp_deflate
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.18+preempt/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - BSD without advertisement clause
> 
> I'm pretty sure the "BSD without advertisement clause" license should not
> taint the kernel, should it ?
> 
> And even if there is an obscure license incompatibility, there is a problem
> in that this module is in the stock kernels, and should then be advertised
> as such (or maybe removed).
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
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Of course, you can fix all this stuff by executing this ;^)

#!/bin/bash
# Temporarily fixes existing modules to contain the GPL symbol
#

TMPF=/tmp/Abradabrca
VER=`uname -r`

cat >${TMPF}.c <<EOF
#define __KERNEL__
#define MODULE
#include <linux/module.h>
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EOF
gcc -Wall -O2 -c -o ${TMPF}.o ${TMPF}.c
for x in `find /lib/modules/${VER} -name "*.o"` ;
    do echo $x ;
    cp $x /tmp/x.o ;
    ld -r /tmp/x.o ${TMPF}.o -o /tmp/y.o ;
    cp /tmp/y.o $x ;
 done
echo "Fixed!"
rm -f ${TMPF} /tmp/x.o /tmp/y.o

Don't you love it when somebody undoes all this "lawyer" stuff!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
                 Windows-2000/Professional isn't.