Re: [ANNOUNCE] mini_fo-0.6.0 overlay file system

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:29 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 02:07 -0400, Eric Lammerts wrote:
> > Markus Klotzbuecher wrote:
> > > mini_fo is a virtual kernel filesystem that can make read-only file
> > > systems writable.
> > 
> > Nice.
> > 
> > Some remarks:
> > Some functions return -ENOTSUPP on error, which makes "ls -l" complain 
> > loudly when getxattr() fails. This should be -EOPNOTSUPP.
> > 
> > The module taints the kernel because of MODULE_LICENSE("LGPL").
> > Since all your copyright statements say it's GPL software, better change 
> > this to "GPL".
> 
> Ugh.  Why does an LGPL module taint the kernel again?

it's gpl anyway in practice when insmod'ed (LGPL mixed with GPL code
becomes GPL, as per the LGPL license)

you can say "GPL with additional rights" which would capture the spirit
of LGPL although the additional rights aren't really all that useful (eg
only for out-of-linux use)

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