Re: During laod a driver

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:04:53AM +0000, Felipe W Damasio wrote:
> "John F Davis" <johndavi@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> JFD> I have this same problem with  a driver I wrote.  What exactly is the
> JFD> problem and how to resolve it?
> 
> 	At the beginning of your code:
> 
> 	MODULE_LICENSE ("GPL");
> 
> 	And the kernel will not be tainted when your module is loaded.

Hi,

without wanting to become religious: Make sure that you indeed want to
and are allowed to distribute that module under the GPL license terms
when you want to make it publicly available, because it will be a violation 
of the GPL otherwise.

Greetings,
Dietmar

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