Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: if you have done any kernel dev work please contact me offlist

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:56 -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:
> > Paul O'Malley wrote:
> > > I have a non brownie point job that needs doing, maybe you can influence
> > > others to work on this issue as I see it also.
>
> > Is this, or a tool like WGA [1] (but non-evil) that would notify (and
> > only notify) the user if non-GPLv2 kernel modules were loaded be
> > something people would be interested in?
>
> I thought Linux already printed "module is tainted" if it detected
> something with proprietary code - it certainly used to.
> kk
I think it does, but you really have to look for it. Ordinary users 
would never see this.

Also, I don't know how consistently the MODULE_LICENSE macro is used, it 
doesn't take sourceless blobs into account and it can be abused [1].

However, if it is used consistently, we could use it to remove some 
non-free modules automatically. But maybe this has already been done for 
use with the linux-restricted-modules package, I don't know.

[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/2991