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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:34:32 -0800 From: Auke Kok <sofar@...-projects.org> To: Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@...il.com> CC: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick Trent Waddington wrote: > On 2/2/07, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org> wrote: >> Ok. I totally dig the *idea* here - I mean, this issue has been ongoing >> for a long time now. But I'd like to see a few comments as to whether we >> need a technological mechanism here to enforce the obvious. To me, it >> just seems totally obvious (any legal comment?) that early C string >> termination is undermining the intent of the MODULE_LICENSE tag. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you exactly what a lawyer would say: > > "well, ya know, it's hard to say when it comes to these issues" > > that's the answer to *any* copyright question. :) to me it even screams "bypassing or a digital copyright enforcement system". that sounds really close to "D.M.C.A. violation" :) thank goodness I'm not a laywer... Auke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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