linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick

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Message-ID: <20070203194735.02441493@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:47:35 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag
 string termination trick

> ACK, and "BSD" etc. should be included. I kept the combinations for 
> backward-compatibility. Possibly we could warn on using them.

BSD is intentionally not allowed. Any proprietary vendor can decide their
code is BSD and never release source just let people play with the
binary. That is why we enforce at least dual.

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