Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:

> > "Due to $MOD_FOO's license ($BLAH), the Linux kernel community
> > cannot resolve problems you may encounter. Please contact
> > $MODULE_VENDOR for support issues."
> 
> Sounds very "politically correct", but certainly more descriptive and 
> less alarming.

More importantly, it directs the support burden to where
it, IMHO, belongs.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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