RE: Driver Model

[Stuart MacDonald]

From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Richard B. Johnson
> sources are available. If the driver does not contain the appropriate
> MODULE_LICENSE() string, then several tools will show "tainted" so

If the MODULE_LICENSE() macro is what determines taint, what's to
prevent a company from compiling their driver in their own kernel tree
with that macro and releasing it binary-only? Wouldn't that module
then be taint-free?

..Stu

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