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Management Age | Re: Kernel tainting by HP System Health Application and Insight
Management Age 2005-01-26 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:00 +0100, Mimmus wrote:
> HP reccomends installation of HP System Health Application and Insight
> Management Agents for RH3:
> http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22093.html
>
> During installation, it asks for breaking GPL license and tainting the
> kernel, otherwise some functionalities will be missing.
>
> It seems a bad choice to me.
>
> Any suggestion?
you can just not use them. The HP guys on this list will hate me for
saying this, but your system will work just fine without those binary
modules, you can sleep better at night about not doing evil things to
the GPL and we still see some cases where those modules spontaniously
reboot or otherwise crash the machine, symptoms that go away when the
customer consequently stops using them.
I don't know why HP has decided to not make those modules conform to the
GPL license, and maybe on of the HP people on this list can expand on
that...
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