It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message.

Ok, Andrew didn't ask for the poetry, but it is an interesting way to protect a copyright license in such a way that all courts today will easily understand it. Just have the kernel build put the copyrighted poetry into a section of all kernel modules, and then if someone tries to lie about the license of the built module, they can easily be caught. Even lawyers understand poetry...

posted Wed, 13 Dec 2006 in [/diary]